All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

NettyShuffleDescriptor, UnknownShuffleDescriptor
```
public interface ShuffleDescriptor
extends Serializable
```
Interface for shuffle deployment descriptor of result partition resource.
The descriptor is used for the deployment of the partition producer/consumer and their data exchange

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ResultPartitionID`	`getResultPartitionID()`
`default boolean`	`isUnknown()`	Returns whether the partition is known and registered with the `ShuffleMaster` implementation.
`Optional<ResourceID>`	`storesLocalResourcesOn()`	Returns the location of the producing task executor if the partition occupies local resources there.

- Method Detail
  - getResultPartitionID
```
ResultPartitionID getResultPartitionID()
```
  - isUnknown
```
default boolean isUnknown()
```
    Returns whether the partition is known and registered with the ShuffleMaster implementation.
    When a partition consumer is being scheduled, it can happen that the producer of the partition (consumer input channel) has not been scheduled and its location and other relevant data is yet to be defined. To proceed with the consumer deployment, currently unknown input channels have to be marked with placeholders. The placeholder is a special implementation of the shuffle descriptor: UnknownShuffleDescriptor.
    Note: this method is not supposed to be overridden in concrete shuffle implementation. The only class where it returns true is UnknownShuffleDescriptor.
    
    Returns:
    
    whether the partition producer has been ever deployed and the corresponding shuffle descriptor is obtained from the ShuffleMaster implementation.
  - storesLocalResourcesOn
```
Optional<ResourceID> storesLocalResourcesOn()
```
    Returns the location of the producing task executor if the partition occupies local resources there.
    Indicates that this partition occupies local resources in the producing task executor. Such partition requires that the task executor is running and being connected to be able to consume the produced data. This is mostly relevant for the batch jobs and blocking result partitions which can outlive the producer lifetime and be released externally. ShuffleEnvironment.releasePartitionsLocally(Collection) can be used to release such kind of partitions locally.
    
    Returns:
    
    the resource id of the producing task executor if the partition occupies local resources there

Interface ShuffleDescriptor

Method Summary

Method Detail

getResultPartitionID

isUnknown

storesLocalResourcesOn