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[1/3] samza git commit: SAMZA-482; create samza-sql module, and add a basic set of non-functional operators into it

Repository: samza
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/samza-sql 6743df319 -> 6a40d5a9a


http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StoreMessageCollector.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StoreMessageCollector.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StoreMessageCollector.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.task.sql;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueStore;
+import org.apache.samza.system.OutgoingMessageEnvelope;
+
+
+/**
+ * Example implementation of <code>SqlMessageCollector</code> that stores outputs from the operators
+ *
+ */
+public class StoreMessageCollector implements SqlMessageCollector {
+
+  private final KeyValueStore<EntityName, List<Object>> outputStore;
+
+  public StoreMessageCollector(KeyValueStore<EntityName, List<Object>> store) {
+    this.outputStore = store;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(Relation deltaRelation) throws Exception {
+    saveOutput(deltaRelation.getName(), deltaRelation);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(Tuple tuple) throws Exception {
+    saveOutput(tuple.getStreamName(), tuple);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void timeout(List<EntityName> outputs) throws Exception {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+  }
+
+  public List<Object> removeOutput(EntityName id) {
+    List<Object> output = outputStore.get(id);
+    outputStore.delete(id);
+    return output;
+  }
+
+  private void saveOutput(EntityName name, Object output) {
+    if (this.outputStore.get(name) == null) {
+      this.outputStore.put(name, new ArrayList<Object>());
+    }
+    List<Object> outputs = this.outputStore.get(name);
+    outputs.add(output);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(OutgoingMessageEnvelope envelope) {
+    saveOutput(
+        EntityName.getStreamName(envelope.getSystemStream().getSystem() + ":" + envelope.getSystemStream().getStream()),
+        envelope);
+  }
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/RandomOperatorTask.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/RandomOperatorTask.java b/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/RandomOperatorTask.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.task.sql;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.data.IncomingMessageTuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation.Join;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window.BoundedTimeWindow;
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueIterator;
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueStore;
+import org.apache.samza.system.IncomingMessageEnvelope;
+import org.apache.samza.system.OutgoingMessageEnvelope;
+import org.apache.samza.system.SystemStream;
+import org.apache.samza.task.InitableTask;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.StreamTask;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.WindowableTask;
+
+
+/***
+ * This example illustrate a SQL join operation that joins two streams together using the following operations:
+ * <p>a. the two streams are each processed by a window operator to convert to relations
+ * <p>b. a join operator is applied on the two relations to generate join results
+ * <p>c. finally, the join results are sent out to the system output
+ *
+ */
+public class RandomOperatorTask implements StreamTask, InitableTask, WindowableTask {
+  private KeyValueStore<EntityName, List<Object>> opOutputStore;
+  private BoundedTimeWindow wndOp1;
+  private BoundedTimeWindow wndOp2;
+  private Join joinOp;
+
+  private BoundedTimeWindow getWindowOp(EntityName streamName) {
+    if (streamName.equals(EntityName.getStreamName("kafka:stream1"))) {
+      return this.wndOp1;
+    } else if (streamName.equals(EntityName.getStreamName("kafka:stream2"))) {
+      return this.wndOp2;
+    }
+
+    throw new IllegalArgumentException("No window operator found for stream: " + streamName);
+  }
+
+  private void processJoinOutput(List<Object> outputs, MessageCollector collector) {
+    // get each tuple in the join operator's outputs and send it to system stream
+    for (Object joinOutput : outputs) {
+      for (KeyValueIterator<Object, Tuple> iter = ((Relation) joinOutput).all(); iter.hasNext();) {
+        Tuple otuple = iter.next().getValue();
+        collector.send(new OutgoingMessageEnvelope(new SystemStream("kafka", "joinOutput1"), otuple.getKey(), otuple
+            .getMessage()));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(IncomingMessageEnvelope envelope, MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator)
+      throws Exception {
+    // create the StoreMessageCollector
+    StoreMessageCollector sqlCollector = new StoreMessageCollector(this.opOutputStore);
+
+    // construct the input tuple
+    IncomingMessageTuple ituple = new IncomingMessageTuple(envelope);
+
+    // based on tuple's stream name, get the window op and run process()
+    BoundedTimeWindow wndOp = getWindowOp(ituple.getStreamName());
+    wndOp.process(ituple, sqlCollector);
+    List<Object> wndOutputs = sqlCollector.removeOutput(wndOp.getSpec().getOutputNames().get(0));
+    if (wndOutputs.isEmpty()) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // process all output from the window operator
+    for (Object input : wndOutputs) {
+      Relation relation = (Relation) input;
+      this.joinOp.process(relation, sqlCollector);
+    }
+    // get the output from the join operator and send them
+    processJoinOutput(sqlCollector.removeOutput(this.joinOp.getSpec().getOutputNames().get(0)), collector);
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    // create the StoreMessageCollector
+    StoreMessageCollector sqlCollector = new StoreMessageCollector(this.opOutputStore);
+
+    // trigger timeout event on both window operators
+    this.wndOp1.window(sqlCollector, coordinator);
+    this.wndOp2.window(sqlCollector, coordinator);
+
+    // for all outputs from the window operators, call joinOp.process()
+    for (Object input : sqlCollector.removeOutput(this.wndOp1.getSpec().getOutputNames().get(0))) {
+      Relation relation = (Relation) input;
+      this.joinOp.process(relation, sqlCollector);
+    }
+    for (Object input : sqlCollector.removeOutput(this.wndOp2.getSpec().getOutputNames().get(0))) {
+      Relation relation = (Relation) input;
+      this.joinOp.process(relation, sqlCollector);
+    }
+
+    // get the output from the join operator and send them
+    processJoinOutput(sqlCollector.removeOutput(this.joinOp.getSpec().getOutputNames().get(0)), collector);
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    // 1. create a fixed length 10 sec window operator
+    this.wndOp1 = new BoundedTimeWindow("wndOp1", 10, "kafka:stream1", "relation1");
+    this.wndOp2 = new BoundedTimeWindow("wndOp2", 10, "kafka:stream2", "relation2");
+    // 2. create a join operation
+    List<String> inputRelations = new ArrayList<String>();
+    inputRelations.add("relation1");
+    inputRelations.add("relation2");
+    List<String> joinKeys = new ArrayList<String>();
+    joinKeys.add("key1");
+    joinKeys.add("key2");
+    this.joinOp = new Join("joinOp", inputRelations, "joinOutput", joinKeys);
+    // Finally, initialize all operators
+    this.opOutputStore =
+        (KeyValueStore<EntityName, List<Object>>) context.getStore("samza-sql-operator-output-kvstore");
+    this.wndOp1.init(config, context);
+    this.wndOp2.init(config, context);
+    this.joinOp.init(config, context);
+  }
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StreamSqlTask.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StreamSqlTask.java b/samza-sql/src/test/java/org/apache/samza/task/sql/StreamSqlTask.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.task.sql;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.Operator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.router.OperatorRouter;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.data.IncomingMessageTuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperatorFactoryImpl;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition.PartitionOp;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition.PartitionSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation.Join;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation.JoinSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream.InsertStream;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream.InsertStreamSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window.BoundedTimeWindow;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window.WindowSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.router.SimpleRouter;
+import org.apache.samza.system.IncomingMessageEnvelope;
+import org.apache.samza.system.SystemStream;
+import org.apache.samza.task.InitableTask;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.StreamTask;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.WindowableTask;
+
+
+/***
+ * This example illustrate a SQL join operation that joins two streams together using the folowing operations:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>a. the two streams are each processed by a window operator to convert to relations
+ * <li>b. a join operator is applied on the two relations to generate join results
+ * <li>c. an istream operator is applied on join output and convert the relation into a stream
+ * <li>d. a partition operator that re-partitions the output stream from istream and send the stream to system output
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * This example also uses an implementation of <code>SqlMessageCollector</code> (@see <code>OperatorMessageCollector</code>)
+ * that uses <code>OperatorRouter</code> to automatically execute the whole paths that connects operators together.
+ */
+public class StreamSqlTask implements StreamTask, InitableTask, WindowableTask {
+
+  private OperatorRouter rteCntx;
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(IncomingMessageEnvelope envelope, MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator)
+      throws Exception {
+    SqlMessageCollector opCollector = new OperatorMessageCollector(collector, coordinator, this.rteCntx);
+
+    IncomingMessageTuple ituple = new IncomingMessageTuple(envelope);
+    for (Iterator<TupleOperator> iter = this.rteCntx.getTupleOperators(ituple.getStreamName()).iterator(); iter
+        .hasNext();) {
+      iter.next().process(ituple, opCollector);
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    SqlMessageCollector opCollector = new OperatorMessageCollector(collector, coordinator, this.rteCntx);
+
+    for (EntityName entity : this.rteCntx.getSystemInputs()) {
+      for (Iterator<Operator> iter = this.rteCntx.getNextOperators(entity).iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
+        iter.next().window(opCollector, coordinator);
+      }
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    // create specification of all operators first
+    // 1. create 2 window specifications that define 2 windows of fixed length of 10 seconds
+    final WindowSpec spec1 =
+        new WindowSpec("fixedWnd1", EntityName.getStreamName("inputStream1"),
+            EntityName.getRelationName("fixedWndOutput1"), 10);
+    final WindowSpec spec2 =
+        new WindowSpec("fixedWnd2", EntityName.getStreamName("inputStream2"),
+            EntityName.getRelationName("fixedWndOutput2"), 10);
+    // 2. create a join specification that join the output from 2 window operators together
+    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
+    List<EntityName> inputRelations = new ArrayList<EntityName>() {
+      {
+        add(spec1.getOutputName());
+        add(spec2.getOutputName());
+      }
+    };
+    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
+    List<String> joinKeys = new ArrayList<String>() {
+      {
+        add("key1");
+        add("key2");
+      }
+    };
+    JoinSpec joinSpec = new JoinSpec("joinOp", inputRelations, EntityName.getRelationName("joinOutput"), joinKeys);
+    // 3. create the specification of an istream operator that convert the output from join to a stream
+    InsertStreamSpec istrmSpec =
+        new InsertStreamSpec("istremOp", joinSpec.getOutputName(), EntityName.getStreamName("istrmOutput1"));
+    // 4. create the specification of a partition operator that re-partitions the stream based on <code>joinKey</code>
+    PartitionSpec parSpec =
+        new PartitionSpec("parOp1", istrmSpec.getOutputName().getName(), new SystemStream("kafka", "parOutputStrm1"),
+            "joinKey", 50);
+
+    // create all operators via the operator factory
+    // 1. create two window operators
+    SimpleOperatorFactoryImpl operatorFactory = new SimpleOperatorFactoryImpl();
+    BoundedTimeWindow wnd1 = (BoundedTimeWindow) operatorFactory.getTupleOperator(spec1);
+    BoundedTimeWindow wnd2 = (BoundedTimeWindow) operatorFactory.getTupleOperator(spec2);
+    // 2. create one join operator
+    Join join = (Join) operatorFactory.getRelationOperator(joinSpec);
+    // 3. create one stream operator
+    InsertStream istream = (InsertStream) operatorFactory.getRelationOperator(istrmSpec);
+    // 4. create a re-partition operator
+    PartitionOp par = (PartitionOp) operatorFactory.getTupleOperator(parSpec);
+
+    // Now, connecting the operators via the OperatorRouter
+    this.rteCntx = new SimpleRouter();
+    // 1. set two system input operators (i.e. two window operators)
+    this.rteCntx.addTupleOperator(spec1.getInputName(), wnd1);
+    this.rteCntx.addTupleOperator(spec2.getInputName(), wnd2);
+    // 2. connect join operator to both window operators
+    this.rteCntx.addRelationOperator(spec1.getOutputName(), join);
+    this.rteCntx.addRelationOperator(spec2.getOutputName(), join);
+    // 3. connect stream operator to the join operator
+    this.rteCntx.addRelationOperator(joinSpec.getOutputName(), istream);
+    // 4. connect re-partition operator to the stream operator
+    this.rteCntx.addTupleOperator(istrmSpec.getOutputName(), par);
+    // 5. set the system inputs
+    this.rteCntx.addSystemInput(spec1.getInputName());
+    this.rteCntx.addSystemInput(spec2.getInputName());
+
+    for (Iterator<Operator> iter = this.rteCntx.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
+      iter.next().init(config, context);
+    }
+  }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/settings.gradle
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diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index bb07a3b..08e548c 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ include \
   'samza-log4j',
   'samza-shell',
   'samza-yarn',
-  'samza-test'
+  'samza-test',
+  'samza-sql'
 
 rootProject.children.each {
   if (it.name != 'samza-api' && it.name != 'samza-shell' && it.name != 'samza-log4j') {


[3/3] samza git commit: SAMZA-484; define serialization for tuples in samza-sql

Posted by cr...@apache.org.
SAMZA-484; define serialization for tuples in samza-sql


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/commit/6a40d5a9
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/tree/6a40d5a9
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/diff/6a40d5a9

Branch: refs/heads/samza-sql
Commit: 6a40d5a9a55605d783fe8e34643207acea1dc433
Parents: d4861df
Author: Navina Ramesh <na...@gmail.com>
Authored: Thu Feb 12 14:30:04 2015 -0800
Committer: Chris Riccomini <cr...@apache.org>
Committed: Thu Feb 12 14:30:04 2015 -0800

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 build.gradle                                    |  10 +-
 gradle/dependency-versions.gradle               |   1 +
 samza-sql/README                                |   1 -
 samza-sql/README.md                             |   1 +
 .../org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Data.java     |  54 ++++
 .../org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Schema.java   |  55 ++++
 .../org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java    |   4 +-
 .../samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java    |   9 +-
 .../apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroData.java    | 262 ++++++++++++++++
 .../apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroSchema.java  | 296 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerde.java    |  45 +++
 .../data/serializers/SqlStringSerdeFactory.java |  33 +++
 .../samza/sql/data/string/StringData.java       | 101 +++++++
 .../samza/sql/data/string/StringSchema.java     |  73 +++++
 .../sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java    |   5 +-
 15 files changed, 932 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/build.gradle
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diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index e6b10fc..b49c313 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ rat {
     'gradlew',
     'gradlew.bat',
     'samza-test/state/mystore/**',
-    'README.md',
+    '**/README.md',
     'RELEASE.md',
   ]
 }
@@ -249,18 +249,12 @@ project(":samza-yarn_$scalaVersion") {
 project(":samza-sql_$scalaVersion") {
   apply plugin: 'java'
 
-  configurations {
-    // Remove transitive dependencies from Zookeeper that we don't want.
-    compile.exclude group: 'javax.jms', module: 'jms'
-    compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jdmk', module: 'jmxtools'
-    compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jmx', module: 'jmxri'
-  }
-
   dependencies {
     compile project(':samza-api')
     compile project(":samza-core_$scalaVersion")
     compile project(":samza-kv_$scalaVersion")
     compile "commons-collections:commons-collections:$commonsCollectionVersion"
+    compile "org.apache.avro:avro:$avroVersion"
     testCompile "junit:junit:$junitVersion"
     testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-all:$mockitoVersion"
   }

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
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diff --git a/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle b/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
index 6f815b2..03c72f8 100644
--- a/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
@@ -35,4 +35,5 @@
   guavaVersion = "17.0"
   commonsCodecVersion = "1.9"
   commonsCollectionVersion = "3.2.1"
+  avroVersion = "1.7.7"
 }

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/README
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diff --git a/samza-sql/README b/samza-sql/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 65b7558..0000000
--- a/samza-sql/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-samza-sql is an experimental module that is under development (SAMZA-390).
\ No newline at end of file

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/README.md
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diff --git a/samza-sql/README.md b/samza-sql/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..598670b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+samza-sql is an experimental module that is under development (SAMZA-390).

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Data.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Data.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Data.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1b8409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Data.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.data;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+public interface Data {
+
+  Schema schema();
+
+  Object value();
+
+  int intValue();
+
+  long longValue();
+
+  float floatValue();
+
+  double doubleValue();
+
+  boolean booleanValue();
+
+  String strValue();
+
+  byte[] bytesValue();
+
+  List<Object> arrayValue();
+
+  Map<Object, Object> mapValue();
+
+  Data getElement(int index);
+
+  Data getFieldData(String fldName);
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Schema.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Schema.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Schema.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e8f192
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Schema.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.data;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+public interface Schema {
+
+  enum Type {
+    INTEGER,
+    LONG,
+    FLOAT,
+    DOUBLE,
+    BOOLEAN,
+    STRING,
+    BYTES,
+    STRUCT,
+    ARRAY,
+    MAP
+  };
+
+  Type getType();
+
+  Schema getElementType();
+
+  Schema getValueType();
+
+  Map<String, Schema> getFields();
+
+  Schema getFieldType(String fldName);
+
+  Data read(Object object);
+
+  Data transform(Data inputData);
+
+  boolean equals(Schema other);
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java
index 0c21a53..bc8efcf 100644
--- a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public interface Tuple {
    *
    * @return Message object in the tuple
    */
-  Object getMessage();
+  Data getMessage();
 
   /**
    * Method to indicate whether the tuple is a delete tuple or an insert tuple
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public interface Tuple {
    *
    * @return The <code>key</code> of the tuple
    */
-  Object getKey();
+  Data getKey();
 
   /**
    * Get the stream name of the tuple. Note this stream name should be unique in the system.

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java
index a8a55e2..f868e5c 100644
--- a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.samza.sql.data;
 
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Data;
 import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
 import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
 import org.apache.samza.system.IncomingMessageEnvelope;
@@ -52,8 +53,8 @@ public class IncomingMessageTuple implements Tuple {
 
   // TODO: the return type should be changed to the generic data type
   @Override
-  public Object getMessage() {
-    return this.imsg.getMessage();
+  public Data getMessage() {
+    return (Data) this.imsg.getMessage();
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ public class IncomingMessageTuple implements Tuple {
   }
 
   @Override
-  public Object getKey() {
-    return imsg.getKey();
+  public Data getKey() {
+    return (Data) this.imsg.getKey();
   }
 
   @Override

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroData.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroData.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroData.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d040be9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroData.java
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.avro;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericArray;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Data;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Schema;
+
+
+public class AvroData implements Data {
+  protected final Object datum;
+  protected final AvroSchema schema;
+
+  private AvroData(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    this.datum = datum;
+    this.schema = schema;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Schema schema() {
+    return this.schema;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Object value() {
+    return this.datum;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int intValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public long longValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public float floatValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public double doubleValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean booleanValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String strValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public byte[] bytesValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<Object> arrayValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Map<Object, Object> mapValue() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Data getElement(int index) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Data getFieldData(String fldName) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get value for an unknown data type.");
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getArray(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.ARRAY) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't create an array object with non-array schema:" + schema.getType());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+      private final GenericArray<Object> array = (GenericArray<Object>) this.datum;
+
+      @Override
+      public List<Object> arrayValue() {
+        return this.array;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Data getElement(int index) {
+        return this.schema.getElementType().read(array.get(index));
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getMap(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.MAP) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't create a map object with non-map schema:" + schema.getType());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+      private final Map<Object, Object> map = (Map<Object, Object>) datum;
+
+      @Override
+      public Map<Object, Object> mapValue() {
+        return this.map;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Data getFieldData(String fldName) {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return this.schema.getValueType().read(map.get(fldName));
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getStruct(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.STRUCT) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't create a struct object with non-struct schema:" + schema.getType());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      private final GenericRecord record = (GenericRecord) datum;
+
+      @Override
+      public Data getFieldData(String fldName) {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return this.schema.getFieldType(fldName).read(record.get(fldName));
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getInt(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.INTEGER || !(datum instanceof Integer)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public int intValue() {
+        return ((Integer) datum).intValue();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getLong(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.LONG || !(datum instanceof Long)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public long longValue() {
+        return ((Long) datum).longValue();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getFloat(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.FLOAT || !(datum instanceof Float)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public float floatValue() {
+        return ((Float) datum).floatValue();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getDouble(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.DOUBLE || !(datum instanceof Double)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public double doubleValue() {
+        return ((Double) datum).doubleValue();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getBoolean(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.BOOLEAN || !(datum instanceof Boolean)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public boolean booleanValue() {
+        return ((Boolean) datum).booleanValue();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getString(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.STRING || !(datum instanceof CharSequence)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public String strValue() {
+        return ((CharSequence) datum).toString();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+
+  public static AvroData getBytes(AvroSchema schema, Object datum) {
+    if (schema.getType() != Schema.Type.BYTES || !(datum instanceof ByteBuffer)) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("data object and schema mismatch. schema:" + schema.getType() + ", data: "
+          + datum.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return new AvroData(schema, datum) {
+      @Override
+      public byte[] bytesValue() {
+        return ((ByteBuffer) datum).array();
+      }
+
+    };
+  }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroSchema.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroSchema.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroSchema.java
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/avro/AvroSchema.java
@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.avro;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.avro.Schema.Field;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Data;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Schema;
+
+
+public class AvroSchema implements Schema {
+
+  protected final org.apache.avro.Schema avroSchema;
+  protected final Schema.Type type;
+
+  private final static Map<org.apache.avro.Schema.Type, AvroSchema> primSchemas =
+      new HashMap<org.apache.avro.Schema.Type, AvroSchema>();
+
+  static {
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.INT,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.INT)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getInt(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.LONG,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.LONG)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getLong(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.FLOAT,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.FLOAT)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getFloat(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.DOUBLE,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.DOUBLE)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getDouble(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.BOOLEAN,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.BOOLEAN)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getBoolean(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.STRING,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.STRING)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getString(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+    primSchemas.put(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.BYTES,
+        new AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema.create(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.BYTES)) {
+      @Override
+      public Data read(Object datum) {
+        return AvroData.getBytes(this, datum);
+      }
+    });
+  };
+
+  public static AvroSchema getSchema(final org.apache.avro.Schema schema) {
+    Schema.Type type = mapType(schema.getType());
+    if (type != Schema.Type.ARRAY && type != Schema.Type.MAP && type != Schema.Type.STRUCT) {
+      return primSchemas.get(schema.getType());
+    }
+    // otherwise, construct the new schema
+    // TODO: It would be possible to assign each complex schema an ID and cache it w/o repeated create in-memory schema objects
+    switch (type) {
+      case ARRAY:
+        return new AvroSchema(schema) {
+          @Override
+          public Data transform(Data input) {
+            // This would get all the elements until the length of the current schema's array length
+            if (input.schema().getType() != Schema.Type.ARRAY) {
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Schema mismatch. Can't transfer data. input schema: "
+                  + input.schema().getType());
+            }
+            if (!input.schema().getElementType().equals(this.getElementType())) {
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Element schema mismatch. Can't transfer data. input schema: "
+                  + input.schema().getElementType().getType());
+            }
+            // input type matches array type
+            return AvroData.getArray(this, input.value());
+          }
+        };
+      case MAP:
+        return new AvroSchema(schema) {
+          @Override
+          public Data transform(Data input) {
+            // This would get all the elements until the length of the current schema's array length
+            if (input.schema().getType() != Schema.Type.MAP) {
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Schema mismatch. Can't transfer data. input schema: "
+                  + input.schema().getType());
+            }
+            if (!input.schema().getValueType().equals(this.getValueType())) {
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Element schema mismatch. Can't transfer data. input schema: "
+                  + input.schema().getValueType().getType());
+            }
+            // input type matches map type
+            return AvroData.getMap(this, input.value());
+          }
+        };
+      case STRUCT:
+        return new AvroSchema(schema) {
+          @SuppressWarnings("serial")
+          private final Map<String, Schema> fldSchemas = new HashMap<String, Schema>() {
+            {
+              for (Field field : schema.getFields()) {
+                put(field.name(), getSchema(field.schema()));
+              }
+            }
+          };
+
+          @Override
+          public Map<String, Schema> getFields() {
+            return this.fldSchemas;
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public Schema getFieldType(String fldName) {
+            return this.fldSchemas.get(fldName);
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public Data transform(Data input) {
+            // This would get all the elements until the length of the current schema's array length
+            if (input.schema().getType() != Schema.Type.STRUCT) {
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Schema mismatch. Can't transfer data. input schema: "
+                  + input.schema().getType());
+            }
+            // Note: this particular transform function only implements "projection to a sub-set" concept.
+            // More complex function is needed if some other concepts such as "merge from two sets of data", "allow null if does not exist" are needed
+            for (String fldName : this.fldSchemas.keySet()) {
+              // check each field schema matches input
+              Schema fldSchema = this.fldSchemas.get(fldName);
+              Schema inputFld = input.schema().getFieldType(fldName);
+              if (!fldSchema.equals(inputFld)) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Field schema mismatch. Can't transfer data for field " + fldName
+                    + ". input field schema:" + inputFld.getType() + ", this field schema: " + fldSchema.getType());
+              }
+            }
+            // input type matches struct type
+            return AvroData.getStruct(this, input.value());
+          }
+
+        };
+      default:
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Un-recognized complext data type:" + type);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private AvroSchema(org.apache.avro.Schema schema) {
+    this.avroSchema = schema;
+    this.type = mapType(schema.getType());
+  }
+
+  private static Type mapType(org.apache.avro.Schema.Type type) {
+    switch (type) {
+      case ARRAY:
+        return Schema.Type.ARRAY;
+      case RECORD:
+        return Schema.Type.STRUCT;
+      case MAP:
+        return Schema.Type.MAP;
+      case INT:
+        return Schema.Type.INTEGER;
+      case LONG:
+        return Schema.Type.LONG;
+      case BOOLEAN:
+        return Schema.Type.BOOLEAN;
+      case FLOAT:
+        return Schema.Type.FLOAT;
+      case DOUBLE:
+        return Schema.Type.DOUBLE;
+      case STRING:
+        return Schema.Type.STRING;
+      case BYTES:
+        return Schema.Type.BYTES;
+      default:
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Avro schema: " + type + " is not supported");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Type getType() {
+    return this.type;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Schema getElementType() {
+    if (this.type != Schema.Type.ARRAY) {
+      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getElmentType with non-array schema: " + this.type);
+    }
+    return getSchema(this.avroSchema.getElementType());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Schema getValueType() {
+    if (this.type != Schema.Type.MAP) {
+      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getValueType with non-map schema: " + this.type);
+    }
+    return getSchema(this.avroSchema.getValueType());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Map<String, Schema> getFields() {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get field types with unknown schema type:" + this.type);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Schema getFieldType(String fldName) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getFieldType with non-map/non-struct schema: " + this.type);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Data read(Object object) {
+    if (this.avroSchema.getType() == org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.ARRAY) {
+      return AvroData.getArray(this, object);
+    } else if (this.avroSchema.getType() == org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.MAP) {
+      return AvroData.getMap(this, object);
+    } else if (this.avroSchema.getType() == org.apache.avro.Schema.Type.RECORD) {
+      return AvroData.getStruct(this, object);
+    }
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Reading unknown complext type:" + this.type + " is not supported");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Data transform(Data inputData) {
+    if (inputData.schema().getType() == Schema.Type.ARRAY || inputData.schema().getType() == Schema.Type.MAP
+        || inputData.schema().getType() == Schema.Type.STRUCT) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Complex schema should have overriden the default transform() function.");
+    }
+    if (inputData.schema().getType() != this.type) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't transform a mismatched primitive type. this type:" + this.type
+          + ", input type:" + inputData.schema().getType());
+    }
+    return inputData;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Schema other) {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    if (this.type != other.getType()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    switch (this.type) {
+      case ARRAY:
+        // check if element types are the same
+        return this.getElementType().equals(other.getElementType());
+      case MAP:
+        // check if value types are the same
+        return this.getValueType().equals(other.getValueType());
+      case STRUCT:
+        // check if the fields schemas in this equals the other
+        // NOTE: this equals check is in consistent with the "projection to subset" concept implemented in transform()
+        for (String fieldName : this.getFields().keySet()) {
+          if (!this.getFieldType(fieldName).equals(other.getFieldType(fieldName))) {
+            return false;
+          }
+        }
+        return true;
+      default:
+        return true;
+    }
+  }
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerde.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerde.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerde.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f0c3b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerde.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.serializers;
+
+import org.apache.samza.serializers.Serde;
+import org.apache.samza.serializers.StringSerde;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.data.string.StringData;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+
+public class SqlStringSerde implements Serde<StringData> {
+
+    private final Serde<String> serde;
+
+    public SqlStringSerde(String encoding) {
+        this.serde = new StringSerde(encoding);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public StringData fromBytes(byte[] bytes) {
+          return new StringData(serde.fromBytes(bytes));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] toBytes(StringData object) {
+        return serde.toBytes(object.strValue());
+    }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerdeFactory.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerdeFactory.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerdeFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2564479
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/serializers/SqlStringSerdeFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.serializers;
+
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.serializers.Serde;
+import org.apache.samza.serializers.SerdeFactory;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.data.string.StringData;
+
+public class SqlStringSerdeFactory implements SerdeFactory<StringData> {
+    @Override
+    public Serde<StringData> getSerde(String name, Config config) {
+        return new SqlStringSerde(config.get("encoding", "UTF-8"));
+    }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringData.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringData.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringData.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b81d9fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringData.java
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.string;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Data;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Schema;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class StringData implements Data {
+    private final Object datum;
+    private final Schema schema;
+
+    public StringData(Object datum) {
+        this.datum = datum;
+        this.schema = new StringSchema();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Schema schema() {
+        return this.schema;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object value() {
+        return this.datum;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int intValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get int value for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long longValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get long value for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public float floatValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get float value for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public double doubleValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get double value for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean booleanValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get boolean value for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String strValue() {
+        return String.valueOf(datum);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] bytesValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get bytesValue for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<Object> arrayValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get arrayValue for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<Object, Object> mapValue() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get mapValue for a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Data getElement(int index) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getElement(index) on a string type data");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Data getFieldData(String fldName) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getFieldData(fieldName) for a string type data");
+    }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringSchema.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringSchema.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringSchema.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..348fc0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/data/string/StringSchema.java
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data.string;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Data;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Schema;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class StringSchema implements Schema {
+    private Type type = Type.STRING;
+
+    @Override
+    public Type getType() {
+      return Type.STRING;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Schema getElementType() {
+      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getElmentType with non-array schema: " + this.type);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Schema getValueType() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getValueType with non-map schema: " + this.type);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<String, Schema> getFields() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't get field types with unknown schema type:" + this.type);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Schema getFieldType(String fldName) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't getFieldType with non-map/non-struct schema: " + this.type);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Data read(Object object) {
+        return new StringData(object);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Data transform(Data inputData) {
+        if (inputData.schema().getType() != this.type) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't transform a mismatched primitive type. this type:" + this.type
+                    + ", input type:" + inputData.schema().getType());
+        }
+        return inputData;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Schema other) {
+        return other.getType() == this.type;
+    }
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/6a40d5a9/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java
index 7921d4f..986d688 100644
--- a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java
@@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ public final class PartitionOp extends SimpleOperator implements TupleOperator {
 
   @Override
   public void process(Tuple tuple, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
-    collector.send(new OutgoingMessageEnvelope(PartitionOp.this.spec.getSystemStream(), tuple.getKey(),
-        null /* TODO: when merge with Schema API changes, use: tuple
-             .getMessage().getFieldData(PartitionOp.this.spec.getParKey()) */, tuple.getMessage()));
+    collector.send(new OutgoingMessageEnvelope(PartitionOp.this.spec.getSystemStream(), tuple.getKey().value(),
+        tuple.getMessage().getFieldData(PartitionOp.this.spec.getParKey()).value(), tuple.getMessage().value()));
   }
 
 }


[2/3] samza git commit: SAMZA-482; create samza-sql module, and add a basic set of non-functional operators into it

Posted by cr...@apache.org.
SAMZA-482; create samza-sql module, and add a basic set of non-functional operators into it


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/commit/d4861df4
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/tree/d4861df4
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/diff/d4861df4

Branch: refs/heads/samza-sql
Commit: d4861df4d4cd37f2d5ddc2db5e3158426de4139c
Parents: 6743df3
Author: Yi Pan <ni...@gmail.com>
Authored: Thu Feb 12 14:27:29 2015 -0800
Committer: Chris Riccomini <cr...@apache.org>
Committed: Thu Feb 12 14:27:29 2015 -0800

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 build.gradle                                    |  20 +++
 gradle/dependency-versions.gradle               |   1 +
 samza-sql/README                                |   1 +
 .../apache/samza/sql/api/data/EntityName.java   | 141 ++++++++++++++++
 .../org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Relation.java |  47 ++++++
 .../org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Tuple.java    |  58 +++++++
 .../samza/sql/api/operators/Operator.java       |  43 +++++
 .../sql/api/operators/RelationOperator.java     |  51 ++++++
 .../sql/api/operators/SqlOperatorFactory.java   |  51 ++++++
 .../samza/sql/api/operators/TupleOperator.java  |  47 ++++++
 .../sql/api/operators/spec/OperatorSpec.java    |  64 ++++++++
 .../samza/sql/api/router/OperatorRouter.java    | 126 +++++++++++++++
 .../samza/sql/data/IncomingMessageTuple.java    |  74 +++++++++
 .../sql/operators/factory/SimpleOperator.java   |  50 ++++++
 .../factory/SimpleOperatorFactoryImpl.java      |  63 ++++++++
 .../operators/factory/SimpleOperatorSpec.java   | 106 +++++++++++++
 .../sql/operators/partition/PartitionOp.java    |  90 +++++++++++
 .../sql/operators/partition/PartitionSpec.java  |  91 +++++++++++
 .../samza/sql/operators/relation/Join.java      | 139 ++++++++++++++++
 .../samza/sql/operators/relation/JoinSpec.java  |  60 +++++++
 .../sql/operators/stream/InsertStream.java      |  98 ++++++++++++
 .../sql/operators/stream/InsertStreamSpec.java  |  42 +++++
 .../sql/operators/window/BoundedTimeWindow.java | 141 ++++++++++++++++
 .../samza/sql/operators/window/WindowSpec.java  |  67 ++++++++
 .../samza/sql/operators/window/WindowState.java |  44 +++++
 .../apache/samza/sql/router/SimpleRouter.java   | 133 ++++++++++++++++
 .../task/sql/OperatorMessageCollector.java      |  80 ++++++++++
 .../samza/task/sql/SqlMessageCollector.java     |  64 ++++++++
 .../samza/task/sql/StoreMessageCollector.java   |  80 ++++++++++
 .../samza/task/sql/RandomOperatorTask.java      | 151 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../apache/samza/task/sql/StreamSqlTask.java    | 159 +++++++++++++++++++
 settings.gradle                                 |   3 +-
 32 files changed, 2384 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/build.gradle
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diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index b803276..e6b10fc 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -246,6 +246,26 @@ project(":samza-yarn_$scalaVersion") {
   jar.dependsOn("lesscss")
 }
 
+project(":samza-sql_$scalaVersion") {
+  apply plugin: 'java'
+
+  configurations {
+    // Remove transitive dependencies from Zookeeper that we don't want.
+    compile.exclude group: 'javax.jms', module: 'jms'
+    compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jdmk', module: 'jmxtools'
+    compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jmx', module: 'jmxri'
+  }
+
+  dependencies {
+    compile project(':samza-api')
+    compile project(":samza-core_$scalaVersion")
+    compile project(":samza-kv_$scalaVersion")
+    compile "commons-collections:commons-collections:$commonsCollectionVersion"
+    testCompile "junit:junit:$junitVersion"
+    testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-all:$mockitoVersion"
+  }
+}
+
 project(":samza-shell") {
   apply plugin: 'java'
 

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
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diff --git a/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle b/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
index 84be50b..6f815b2 100644
--- a/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependency-versions.gradle
@@ -34,4 +34,5 @@
   log4jVersion = "1.2.17"
   guavaVersion = "17.0"
   commonsCodecVersion = "1.9"
+  commonsCollectionVersion = "3.2.1"
 }

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/README
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diff --git a/samza-sql/README b/samza-sql/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65b7558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/README
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+samza-sql is an experimental module that is under development (SAMZA-390).
\ No newline at end of file

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/EntityName.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/EntityName.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/EntityName.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..127a677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/EntityName.java
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.data;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the name scheme for the collective data entities in Samza Stream SQL, i.e. relations and streams.
+ */
+public class EntityName {
+  /**
+   * <code>EntityType</code> defines the types of the entity names
+   *
+   */
+  private enum EntityType {
+    RELATION,
+    STREAM
+  };
+
+  /**
+   * Type of the entity name
+   */
+  private final EntityType type;
+
+  /**
+   * Formatted name of the entity.
+   *
+   * <p>This formatted name of the entity should be unique identifier for the corresponding relation/stream in the system.
+   * e.g. for a Kafka system stream named "mystream", the formatted name should be "kafka:mystream".
+   */
+  private final String name;
+
+  //TODO: we may want to replace the map with Guava cache to allow GC
+  /**
+   * Static map of already allocated relation names
+   */
+  private static Map<String, EntityName> relations = new HashMap<String, EntityName>();
+
+  /**
+   * Static map of already allocated stream names
+   */
+  private static Map<String, EntityName> streams = new HashMap<String, EntityName>();
+
+  /**
+   * Private ctor to create entity names
+   *
+   * @param type Type of the entity name
+   * @param name Formatted name of the entity
+   */
+  private EntityName(EntityType type, String name) {
+    this.type = type;
+    this.name = name;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return String.format("%s:%s", this.type, this.name);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Object other) {
+    if (other instanceof EntityName) {
+      EntityName otherEntity = (EntityName) other;
+      return this.type.equals(otherEntity.type) && this.name.equals(otherEntity.name);
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Check to see whether this entity name is for a relation
+   *
+   * @return true if the entity type is <code>EntityType.RELATION</code>; false otherwise
+   */
+  public boolean isRelation() {
+    return this.type.equals(EntityType.RELATION);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Check to see whether this entity name is for a stream
+   *
+   * @return true if the entity type is <code>EntityType.STREAM</code>; false otherwise
+   */
+  public boolean isStream() {
+    return this.type.equals(EntityType.STREAM);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get the formatted entity name
+   *
+   * @return The formatted entity name
+   */
+  public String getName() {
+    return this.name;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Static method to get the instance of <code>EntityName</code> with type <code>EntityType.RELATION</code>
+   *
+   * @param name The formatted entity name of the relation
+   * @return A <code>EntityName</code> for a relation
+   */
+  public static EntityName getRelationName(String name) {
+    if (relations.get(name) == null) {
+      relations.put(name, new EntityName(EntityType.RELATION, name));
+    }
+    return relations.get(name);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Static method to get the instance of <code>EntityName</code> with type <code>EntityType.STREAM</code>
+   *
+   * @param name The formatted entity name of the stream
+   * @return A <code>EntityName</code> for a stream
+   */
+  public static EntityName getStreamName(String name) {
+    if (streams.get(name) == null) {
+      streams.put(name, new EntityName(EntityType.STREAM, name));
+    }
+    return streams.get(name);
+  }
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/samza/blob/d4861df4/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Relation.java
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diff --git a/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Relation.java b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Relation.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90b8026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samza-sql/src/main/java/org/apache/samza/sql/api/data/Relation.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.data;
+
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueStore;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the general interface of <code>Relation</code>, which is defined as a map of <code>Tuple</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>The interface is defined as an extension to <code>KeyValueStore&lt;Object, Tuple&gt;</code>.
+ *
+ */
+
+public interface Relation extends KeyValueStore<Object, Tuple> {
+
+  /**
+   * Get the primary key field name for this table
+   *
+   * @return The name of the primary key field
+   */
+  String getPrimaryKey();
+
+  /**
+   * Get the name of the relation created by CREATE TABLE
+   *
+   * @return The relation name
+   */
+  EntityName getName();
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.data;
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the generic interface of <code>Tuple</code>, which is a entry from the incoming stream, or one row in a <code>Relation</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>Tuple</code> models the basic operatible unit in streaming SQL processes in Samza.
+ *
+ */
+public interface Tuple {
+
+  /**
+   * Access method to get the corresponding message body in the tuple
+   *
+   * @return Message object in the tuple
+   */
+  Object getMessage();
+
+  /**
+   * Method to indicate whether the tuple is a delete tuple or an insert tuple
+   *
+   * @return A boolean value indicates whether the current tuple is a delete or insert message
+   */
+  boolean isDelete();
+
+  /**
+   * Access method to the key of the tuple
+   *
+   * @return The <code>key</code> of the tuple
+   */
+  Object getKey();
+
+  /**
+   * Get the stream name of the tuple. Note this stream name should be unique in the system.
+   *
+   * @return The stream name which this tuple belongs to
+   */
+  EntityName getStreamName();
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.task.InitableTask;
+import org.apache.samza.task.WindowableTask;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the common interface for operator classes, no matter what input data are.
+ *
+ * <p> It extends the <code>InitableTask</code> and <code>WindowableTask</code> to reuse the interface methods
+ * <code>init</code> and <code>window</code> for initialization and timeout operations
+ *
+ */
+public interface Operator extends InitableTask, WindowableTask {
+
+  /**
+   * Method to the specification of this <code>Operator</code>
+   *
+   * @return The <code>OperatorSpec</code> object that defines the configuration/parameters of the operator
+   */
+  OperatorSpec getSpec();
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the interface <code>RelationOperator</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>All operators implementing <code>RelationOperator</code> will take a <code>Relation</code> object as input.
+ * The SQL operators that need to implement this interface include:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>All relation algebra operators, such as: join, select, where, group-by, having, limit, order-by, etc.
+ * <li>All relation-to-stream operators, which converts a relation to a stream
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ */
+public interface RelationOperator extends Operator {
+
+  /**
+   * Method to perform a relational algebra on a set of relations, or a relation-to-stream function
+   *
+   * <p> The actual implementation of relational logic is performed by the implementation of this method.
+   * The <code>collector</code> object is used by the operator to send their output to
+   *
+   * @param deltaRelation The changed rows in the input relation, including the inserts/deletes/updates
+   * @param collector The <code>SqlMessageCollector</code> object that accepts outputs from the operator
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void process(Relation deltaRelation, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception;
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the interface of SQL operator factory, which creates the following operators:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li><code>RelationOperator</code> that takes <code>Relation</code> as input variables
+ * <li><code>TupleOperator</code> that takes <code>Tuple</code> as input variables
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ */
+public interface SqlOperatorFactory {
+
+  /**
+   * Interface method to create/get the <code>RelationOperator</code> object
+   *
+   * @param spec The specification of the <code>RelationOperator</code> object
+   * @return The relation operator object
+   */
+  RelationOperator getRelationOperator(OperatorSpec spec);
+
+  /**
+   * Interface method to create/get the <code>TupleOperator</code> object
+   *
+   * @param spec The specification of the <code>TupleOperator</code> object
+   * @return The tuple operator object
+   */
+  TupleOperator getTupleOperator(OperatorSpec spec);
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the interface class that processes incoming tuples from input stream(s).
+ *
+ * <p>All operators implementing <code>TupleOperator</code> will take a <code>Tuple</code> object as input.
+ * The SQL operators that need to implement this interface include:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>All stream-to-relation operators, such as: window operators.
+ * <li>All stream-to-stream operators, such as: re-partition, union of two streams
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ */
+public interface TupleOperator extends Operator {
+  /**
+   * Interface method to process on an input tuple.
+   *
+   * @param tuple The input tuple, which has the incoming message from a stream
+   * @param collector The <code>SqlMessageCollector</code> object that accepts outputs from the operator
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void process(Tuple tuple, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception;
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines a generic specification interface class for all operators.
+ *
+ * <p>The purpose of this class is to encapsulate all the details of configuration/parameters of a specific implementation of an operator.
+ *
+ * <p>The generic methods for an operator specification is to provide methods to get the unique ID, the list of entity names (i.e. stream name
+ * in <code>Tuple</code> or <code>Relation</code> name) of input variables , and the list of entity names of the output variables.
+ *
+ */
+public interface OperatorSpec {
+  /**
+   * Interface method that returns the unique ID of the operator in a task
+   *
+   * @return The unique ID of the <code>Operator</code> object
+   */
+  String getId();
+
+  /**
+   * Access method to the list of entity names of input variables.
+   *
+   * <p>The input entity names are either stream names if the operator is a <code>TupleOperator</code>;
+   * or <code>Relation</code> names if the operator is a <code>RelationOperator</code>
+   *
+   * @return A list of entity names of the inputs
+   */
+  List<EntityName> getInputNames();
+
+  /**
+   * Access method to the list of entity name of the output variable
+   *
+   * <p>The output entity name is either a stream name if the operator generates tuples as an output stream;
+   * or <code>Relation</code> names if the operator generates a <code>Relation</code> as output.
+   *
+   * @return The entity name of the output
+   *
+   */
+  List<EntityName> getOutputNames();
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.api.router;
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.Operator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+
+
+/**
+ * This interface class defines interface methods to connect operators together.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>OperatorRouter</code> allows the user to attach operators to a relation or a stream entity,
+ * if the corresponding relation/stream is included as inputs to the operator. Each operator then executes its own logic
+ * and determines which relation/stream to emit the output to. Through the <code>OperatorRouter</code>, the next
+ * operators attached to the corresponding output entities (i.e. relations/streams) can then be invoked to continue the
+ * stream process task.
+ *
+ * <p>The <code>OperatorRouter</code> also allows the user to set the system input entities (i.e. relations/streams)
+ * that are fed into the operators by the system outside the <code>OperatorRouter</code>, not generated by some
+ * operators in the <code>OperatorRouter</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>The methods included in this interface class allow a user to
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>i)   add operators to an <code>EntityName</code>
+ * <li>ii)  get the next operators attached to an <code>EntityName</code>
+ * <li>iii) add and get the system input <code>EntityName</code>s
+ * <li>iv)  iterate through each and every operator connected via <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ */
+public interface OperatorRouter {
+
+  /**
+   * This method adds a <code>TupleOperator</code> as one of the input operators.
+   *
+   * @param stream The output stream entity name
+   * @param nextOp The <code>TupleOperator</code> that takes the tuples in the <code>stream</code> as an input.
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void addTupleOperator(EntityName stream, TupleOperator nextOp) throws Exception;
+
+  /**
+   * This method adds a <code>RelationOperator</code> as one of the input operators
+
+   * @param relation The input relation entity name
+   * @param nextOp The <code>RelationOperator</code> that takes the <code>relation</code> as an input
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void addRelationOperator(EntityName relation, RelationOperator nextOp) throws Exception;
+
+  /**
+   * This method gets the list of <code>RelationOperator</code>s attached to the <code>relation</code>
+   *
+   * @param relation The identifier of the relation entity
+   * @return The list of <code>RelationOperator</code> taking <code>relation</code> as an input variable
+   */
+  List<RelationOperator> getRelationOperators(EntityName relation);
+
+  /**
+   * This method gets the list of <code>TupleOperator</code>s attached to the <code>stream</code>
+   *
+   * @param stream The identifier of the stream entity
+   * @return The list of <code>TupleOperator</code> taking <code>stream</code> as an input variable
+   */
+  List<TupleOperator> getTupleOperators(EntityName stream);
+
+  /**
+   * This method gets the list of <code>Operator</code>s attached to an output entity (of any type)
+   *
+   * @param output The identifier of the output entity
+   * @return The list of <code>Operator</code> taking <code>output</code> as input variables
+   */
+  List<Operator> getNextOperators(EntityName output);
+
+  /**
+   * This method provides an iterator to go through all operators connected via <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+   *
+   * @return An <code>Iterator</code> for all operators connected via <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+   */
+  Iterator<Operator> iterator();
+
+  /**
+   * This method checks to see whether there is any <code>Operator</code> attached to the entity <code>output</code>
+   *
+   * @param output The output entity name
+   * @return True if there is some operator attached to the <code>output</code>; false otherwise
+   */
+  boolean hasNextOperators(EntityName output);
+
+  /**
+   * This method adds an entity as the system input
+   *
+   * @param input The entity name for the system input
+   */
+  void addSystemInput(EntityName input);
+
+  /**
+   * This method returns the list of entities as system inputs
+   *
+   * @return The list of <code>EntityName</code>s as system inputs
+   */
+  List<EntityName> getSystemInputs();
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.samza.sql.data;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.system.IncomingMessageEnvelope;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class implements a <code>Tuple</code> class that encapsulates <code>IncomingMessageEnvelope</code> from the system
+ *
+ */
+public class IncomingMessageTuple implements Tuple {
+  /**
+   * Incoming message envelope
+   */
+  private final IncomingMessageEnvelope imsg;
+
+  /**
+   * The entity name for the incoming system stream
+   */
+  private final EntityName strmEntity;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor to create a <code>IncomingMessageTuple</code> from <code>IncomingMessageEnvelope</code>
+   *
+   * @param imsg The incoming system message
+   */
+  public IncomingMessageTuple(IncomingMessageEnvelope imsg) {
+    this.imsg = imsg;
+    this.strmEntity =
+        EntityName.getStreamName(String.format("%s:%s", imsg.getSystemStreamPartition().getSystem(), imsg
+            .getSystemStreamPartition().getStream()));
+  }
+
+  // TODO: the return type should be changed to the generic data type
+  @Override
+  public Object getMessage() {
+    return this.imsg.getMessage();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean isDelete() {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Object getKey() {
+    return imsg.getKey();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public EntityName getStreamName() {
+    return this.strmEntity;
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.Operator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * An abstract class that encapsulate the basic information and methods that all operator classes should implement.
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class SimpleOperator implements Operator {
+  /**
+   * The specification of this operator
+   */
+  private final OperatorSpec spec;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor of <code>SimpleOperator</code> class
+   *
+   * @param spec The specification of this operator
+   */
+  public SimpleOperator(OperatorSpec spec) {
+    this.spec = spec;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public OperatorSpec getSpec() {
+    return this.spec;
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.SqlOperatorFactory;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition.PartitionOp;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition.PartitionSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation.Join;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation.JoinSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream.InsertStream;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream.InsertStreamSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window.BoundedTimeWindow;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window.WindowSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * This simple factory class provides method to create the build-in operators per operator specification.
+ * It can be extended when the build-in operators expand.
+ *
+ */
+public class SimpleOperatorFactoryImpl implements SqlOperatorFactory {
+
+  @Override
+  public RelationOperator getRelationOperator(OperatorSpec spec) {
+    if (spec instanceof JoinSpec) {
+      return new Join((JoinSpec) spec);
+    } else if (spec instanceof InsertStreamSpec) {
+      return new InsertStream((InsertStreamSpec) spec);
+    }
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unsupported operator specified: " + spec.getClass().getCanonicalName());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public TupleOperator getTupleOperator(OperatorSpec spec) {
+    if (spec instanceof WindowSpec) {
+      return new BoundedTimeWindow((WindowSpec) spec);
+    } else if (spec instanceof PartitionSpec) {
+      return new PartitionOp((PartitionSpec) spec);
+    }
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unsupported operator specified" + spec.getClass().getCanonicalName());
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * An abstract class that encapsulate the basic information and methods that all specification of operators should implement.
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class SimpleOperatorSpec implements OperatorSpec {
+  /**
+   * The identifier of the corresponding operator
+   */
+  private final String id;
+
+  /**
+   * The list of input entity names of the corresponding operator
+   */
+  private final List<EntityName> inputs = new ArrayList<EntityName>();
+
+  /**
+   * The list of output entity names of the corresponding operator
+   */
+  private final List<EntityName> outputs = new ArrayList<EntityName>();
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor of the <code>SimpleOperatorSpec</code> for simple <code>Operator</code>s w/ one input and one output
+   *
+   * @param id Unique identifier of the <code>Operator</code> object
+   * @param input The only input entity
+   * @param output The only output entity
+   */
+  public SimpleOperatorSpec(String id, EntityName input, EntityName output) {
+    this.id = id;
+    this.inputs.add(input);
+    this.outputs.add(output);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor of <code>SimpleOperatorSpec</code> with general format: m inputs and n outputs
+   *
+   * @param id Unique identifier of the <code>Operator</code> object
+   * @param inputs The list of input entities
+   * @param output The list of output entities
+   */
+  public SimpleOperatorSpec(String id, List<EntityName> inputs, EntityName output) {
+    this.id = id;
+    this.inputs.addAll(inputs);
+    this.outputs.add(output);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getId() {
+    return this.id;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<EntityName> getInputNames() {
+    return this.inputs;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<EntityName> getOutputNames() {
+    return this.outputs;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the first output entity
+   *
+   * @return The first output entity name
+   */
+  public EntityName getOutputName() {
+    return this.outputs.get(0);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the first input entity
+   *
+   * @return The first input entity name
+   */
+  public EntityName getInputName() {
+    return this.inputs.get(0);
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.system.OutgoingMessageEnvelope;
+import org.apache.samza.system.SystemStream;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This is an example build-in operator that performs a simple stream re-partition operation.
+ *
+ */
+public final class PartitionOp extends SimpleOperator implements TupleOperator {
+
+  /**
+   * The specification of this <code>PartitionOp</code>
+   *
+   */
+  private final PartitionSpec spec;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor that takes the <code>PartitionSpec</code> object as input.
+   *
+   * @param spec The <code>PartitionSpec</code> object
+   */
+  public PartitionOp(PartitionSpec spec) {
+    super(spec);
+    this.spec = spec;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A simplified constructor that allow users to randomly create <code>PartitionOp</code>
+   *
+   * @param id The identifier of this operator
+   * @param input The input stream name of this operator
+   * @param system The output system name of this operator
+   * @param output The output stream name of this operator
+   * @param parKey The partition key used for the output stream
+   * @param parNum The number of partitions used for the output stream
+   */
+  public PartitionOp(String id, String input, String system, String output, String parKey, int parNum) {
+    super(new PartitionSpec(id, input, new SystemStream(system, output), parKey, parNum));
+    this.spec = (PartitionSpec) super.getSpec();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // No need to initialize store since all inputs are immediately send out
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // NOOP or flush
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(Tuple tuple, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
+    collector.send(new OutgoingMessageEnvelope(PartitionOp.this.spec.getSystemStream(), tuple.getKey(),
+        null /* TODO: when merge with Schema API changes, use: tuple
+             .getMessage().getFieldData(PartitionOp.this.spec.getParKey()) */, tuple.getMessage()));
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.partition;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.system.SystemStream;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the specification class of <code>PartitionOp</code> operator
+ *
+ */
+public class PartitionSpec extends SimpleOperatorSpec implements OperatorSpec {
+
+  /**
+   * The partition key name
+   */
+  private final String parKey;
+
+  /**
+   * The number of partitions
+   */
+  private final int parNum;
+
+  /**
+   * The <code>SystemStream</code> to send the partition output to
+   */
+  private final SystemStream sysStream;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor to create the <code>PartitionSpec</code>
+   *
+   * @param id The ID of the <code>PartitionOp</code>
+   * @param input The input stream name
+   * @param output The output <code>SystemStream</code> object
+   * @param parKey The name of the partition key
+   * @param parNum The number of partitions
+   */
+  public PartitionSpec(String id, String input, SystemStream output, String parKey, int parNum) {
+    super(id, EntityName.getStreamName(input), EntityName.getStreamName(output.getSystem() + ":" + output.getStream()));
+    this.parKey = parKey;
+    this.parNum = parNum;
+    this.sysStream = output;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the partition key name
+   *
+   * @return The partition key name
+   */
+  public String getParKey() {
+    return this.parKey;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the number of partitions
+   *
+   * @return The number of partitions
+   */
+  public int getParNum() {
+    return this.parNum;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the output <code>SystemStream</code>
+   *
+   * @return The output system stream object
+   */
+  public SystemStream getSystemStream() {
+    return this.sysStream;
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines an example build-in operator for a join operator between two relations.
+ *
+ */
+public class Join extends SimpleOperator implements RelationOperator {
+
+  private final JoinSpec spec;
+
+  /**
+   * The input relations
+   *
+   */
+  private List<Relation> inputs = null;
+
+  /**
+   * The output relation
+   */
+  private Relation output = null;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor that creates <code>Join</code> operator based on the specification.
+   *
+   * @param spec The <code>JoinSpec</code> object that specifies the join operator
+   */
+  public Join(JoinSpec spec) {
+    super(spec);
+    this.spec = spec;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * An alternative ctor that allows users to create a join operator randomly.
+   *
+   * @param id The identifier of the join operator
+   * @param joinIns The list of input relation names of the join
+   * @param joinOut The output relation name of the join
+   * @param joinKeys The list of keys used in the join. Each entry in the <code>joinKeys</code> is the key name used in one of the input relations.
+   *     The order of the <code>joinKeys</code> MUST be the same as their corresponding relation names in <code>joinIns</code>
+   */
+  @SuppressWarnings("serial")
+  public Join(final String id, final List<String> joinIns, final String joinOut, final List<String> joinKeys) {
+    super(new JoinSpec(id, new ArrayList<EntityName>() {
+      {
+        for (String name : joinIns) {
+          add(EntityName.getRelationName(name));
+        }
+      }
+    }, EntityName.getRelationName(joinOut), joinKeys));
+    this.spec = (JoinSpec) this.getSpec();
+  }
+
+  private boolean hasPendingChanges() {
+    return getPendingChanges() != null;
+  }
+
+  private Relation getPendingChanges() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // return any pending changes that have not been processed yet
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  private Relation getOutputChanges() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  private boolean hasOutputChanges() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    return getOutputChanges() != null;
+  }
+
+  private void join(Relation deltaRelation) {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // implement the join logic
+    // 1. calculate the delta changes in <code>output</code>
+    // 2. check output condition to see whether the current input should trigger an output
+    // 3. set the output changes and pending changes
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    for (EntityName relation : this.spec.getInputNames()) {
+      inputs.add((Relation) context.getStore(relation.toString()));
+    }
+    this.output = (Relation) context.getStore(this.spec.getOutputName().toString());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    SqlMessageCollector sqlCollector = (SqlMessageCollector) collector;
+    if (hasPendingChanges()) {
+      sqlCollector.send(getPendingChanges());
+    }
+    sqlCollector.timeout(this.spec.getOutputNames());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(Relation deltaRelation, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
+    // calculate join based on the input <code>deltaRelation</code>
+    join(deltaRelation);
+    if (hasOutputChanges()) {
+      collector.send(getOutputChanges());
+    }
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.relation;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class implements specification class for the build-in <code>Join</code> operator
+ */
+public class JoinSpec extends SimpleOperatorSpec implements OperatorSpec {
+  /**
+   * Join keys defined for each input relation
+   */
+  private final List<String> joinKeys = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+  /**
+   * Default ctor for the <code>JoinSpec</code>
+   *
+   * @param id Unique ID of the <code>Join</code> object
+   * @param joinIns The list of input relations
+   * @param joinOut The output relation
+   * @param joinKeys The list of join keys in input relations
+   */
+  public JoinSpec(String id, List<EntityName> joinIns, EntityName joinOut, List<String> joinKeys) {
+    super(id, joinIns, joinOut);
+    this.joinKeys.addAll(joinKeys);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the list of join keys
+   *
+   * @return The list of join keys
+   */
+  public List<String> getJoinKeys() {
+    return this.joinKeys;
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueIterator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines an example build-in operator for an istream operator that converts a relation to a stream
+ *
+ */
+public class InsertStream extends SimpleOperator implements RelationOperator {
+  /**
+   * The <code>InsertStreamSpec</code> for this operator
+   */
+  private final InsertStreamSpec spec;
+
+  /**
+   * The time-varying relation that is to be converted into a stream
+   */
+  private Relation relation = null;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor that takes the specication of the object as input parameter
+   *
+   * <p>This version of constructor is often used in an implementation of <code>SqlOperatorFactory</code>
+   *
+   * @param spec The <code>InsertStreamSpec</code> specification of this operator
+   */
+  public InsertStream(InsertStreamSpec spec) {
+    super(spec);
+    this.spec = spec;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * An alternative ctor that allow users to create an <code>InsertStream</code> object randomly
+   *
+   * @param id The identifier of the <code>InsertStream</code> object
+   * @param input The input relation
+   * @param output The output stream
+   */
+  public InsertStream(String id, String input, String output) {
+    super(new InsertStreamSpec(id, EntityName.getRelationName(input), EntityName.getStreamName(output)));
+    this.spec = (InsertStreamSpec) super.getSpec();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(Relation deltaRelation, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
+    KeyValueIterator<Object, Tuple> iterator = deltaRelation.all();
+    for (; iterator.hasNext();) {
+      Tuple tuple = iterator.next().getValue();
+      if (!tuple.isDelete()) {
+        collector.send(tuple);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    if (this.relation == null) {
+      this.relation = (Relation) context.getStore(this.spec.getInputName().toString());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // assuming this operation does not have pending changes kept in memory
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.stream;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * Example implementation of specification of <code>InsertStream</code> operator
+ */
+public class InsertStreamSpec extends SimpleOperatorSpec implements OperatorSpec {
+
+  /**
+   * Default ctor of <code>InsertStreamSpec</code>
+   *
+   * @param id The identifier of the operator
+   * @param input The input relation entity
+   * @param output The output stream entity
+   */
+  public InsertStreamSpec(String id, EntityName input, EntityName output) {
+    super(id, input, output);
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.config.Config;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.storage.kv.KeyValueIterator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskContext;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+import org.apache.samza.task.sql.SqlMessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines an example build-in operator for a fixed size window operator that converts a stream to a relation
+ *
+ */
+public class BoundedTimeWindow extends SimpleOperator implements TupleOperator {
+
+  /**
+   * The specification of this window operator
+   */
+  private final WindowSpec spec;
+
+  /**
+   * The relation that the window operator keeps internally
+   */
+  private Relation relation = null;
+
+  /**
+   * The list of window states of all active windows the window operator keeps in track
+   */
+  private List<WindowState> windowStates = null;
+
+  /**
+   * Ctor that takes <code>WindowSpec</code> specification as input argument
+   *
+   * <p>This version of constructor is often used in an implementation of <code>SqlOperatorFactory</code>
+   *
+   * @param spec The window specification object
+   */
+  public BoundedTimeWindow(WindowSpec spec) {
+    super(spec);
+    this.spec = spec;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A simplified version of ctor that allows users to randomly created a window operator w/o spec object
+   *
+   * @param wndId The identifier of this window operator
+   * @param lengthSec The window size in seconds
+   * @param input The input stream name
+   * @param output The output relation name
+   */
+  public BoundedTimeWindow(String wndId, int lengthSec, String input, String output) {
+    super(new WindowSpec(wndId, EntityName.getStreamName(input), EntityName.getRelationName(output), lengthSec));
+    this.spec = (WindowSpec) super.getSpec();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process(Tuple tuple, SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
+    // for each tuple, this will evaluate the incoming tuple and update the window states.
+    // If the window states allow generating output, calculate the delta changes in
+    // the window relation and execute the relation operation <code>nextOp</code>
+    updateWindow(tuple);
+    processWindowChanges(collector);
+  }
+
+  private void processWindowChanges(SqlMessageCollector collector) throws Exception {
+    if (windowStateChange()) {
+      collector.send(getWindowChanges());
+    }
+  }
+
+  private Relation getWindowChanges() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  private boolean windowStateChange() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    return getWindowChanges() != null;
+  }
+
+  private void updateWindow(Tuple tuple) {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // The window states are updated here
+    // And the correpsonding deltaChanges is also calculated here.
+  }
+
+  private void updateWindowTimeout() {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    // The window states are updated here
+    // And the correpsonding deltaChanges is also calculated here.
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void window(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator) throws Exception {
+    SqlMessageCollector sqlCollector = (SqlMessageCollector) collector;
+    updateWindowTimeout();
+    processWindowChanges(sqlCollector);
+    sqlCollector.timeout(this.spec.getOutputNames());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init(Config config, TaskContext context) throws Exception {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+    if (this.relation == null) {
+      this.relation = (Relation) context.getStore(this.spec.getOutputName().toString());
+      Relation wndStates = (Relation) context.getStore(this.spec.getWndStatesName());
+      this.windowStates = new ArrayList<WindowState>();
+      for (KeyValueIterator<Object, Tuple> iter = wndStates.all(); iter.hasNext();) {
+        this.windowStates.add((WindowState) iter.next().getValue().getMessage());
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.spec.OperatorSpec;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.operators.factory.SimpleOperatorSpec;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class implements the specification class for the build-in <code>BoundedTimeWindow</code> operator
+ */
+public class WindowSpec extends SimpleOperatorSpec implements OperatorSpec {
+
+  /**
+   * The window size in seconds
+   */
+  private final int wndSizeSec;
+
+  /**
+   * Default ctor of the <code>WindowSpec</code> object
+   *
+   * @param id The identifier of the operator
+   * @param input The input stream entity
+   * @param output The output relation entity
+   * @param lengthSec The window size in seconds
+   */
+  public WindowSpec(String id, EntityName input, EntityName output, int lengthSec) {
+    super(id, input, output);
+    this.wndSizeSec = lengthSec;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the window state relation name
+   *
+   * @return The window state relation name
+   */
+  public String getWndStatesName() {
+    return this.getId() + "-wnd-state";
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Method to get the window size in seconds
+   *
+   * @return The window size in seconds
+   */
+  public int getWndSizeSec() {
+    return this.wndSizeSec;
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.operators.window;
+
+public class WindowState {
+  public String startOffset = null;
+  public String endOffset = null;
+  public boolean isClosed = false;
+
+  public void open(String offset) {
+    this.isClosed = false;
+    this.startOffset = offset;
+  }
+
+  public void close(String offset) {
+    this.endOffset = offset;
+    this.isClosed = true;
+  }
+
+  public void advanceTo(String offset) {
+    this.endOffset = offset;
+  }
+
+  public boolean isClosed() {
+    return this.isClosed;
+  }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.sql.router;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.Operator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.router.OperatorRouter;
+
+
+/**
+ * Example implementation of <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+ *
+ */
+public class SimpleRouter implements OperatorRouter {
+  /**
+   * List of operators added to the <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+   */
+  private List<Operator> operators = new ArrayList<Operator>();
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+  /**
+   * Map of <code>EntityName</code> to the list of operators associated with it
+   */
+  private Map<EntityName, List> nextOps = new HashMap<EntityName, List>();
+
+  /**
+   * List of <code>EntityName</code> as system inputs
+   */
+  private List<EntityName> inputEntities = new ArrayList<EntityName>();
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  private void addOperator(EntityName output, Operator nextOp) {
+    if (nextOps.get(output) == null) {
+      nextOps.put(output, new ArrayList<Operator>());
+    }
+    nextOps.get(output).add(nextOp);
+    operators.add(nextOp);
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Iterator<Operator> iterator() {
+    return operators.iterator();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void addTupleOperator(EntityName outputStream, TupleOperator nextOp) throws Exception {
+    if (!outputStream.isStream()) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't attach an TupleOperator " + nextOp.getSpec().getId()
+          + " to a non-stream entity " + outputStream);
+    }
+    addOperator(outputStream, nextOp);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void addRelationOperator(EntityName outputRelation, RelationOperator nextOp) throws Exception {
+    if (!outputRelation.isRelation()) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't attach an RelationOperator " + nextOp.getSpec().getId()
+          + " to a non-relation entity " + outputRelation);
+    }
+    addOperator(outputRelation, nextOp);
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Override
+  public List<RelationOperator> getRelationOperators(EntityName outputRelation) {
+    if (!outputRelation.isRelation()) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't get RelationOperators for a non-relation output: " + outputRelation);
+    }
+    return nextOps.get(outputRelation);
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Override
+  public List<TupleOperator> getTupleOperators(EntityName outputStream) {
+    if (!outputStream.isStream()) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't get TupleOperators for a non-stream output: " + outputStream);
+    }
+    return nextOps.get(outputStream);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean hasNextOperators(EntityName output) {
+    return nextOps.get(output) != null && !nextOps.get(output).isEmpty();
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Override
+  public List<Operator> getNextOperators(EntityName output) {
+    return nextOps.get(output);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void addSystemInput(EntityName input) {
+    if (!nextOps.containsKey(input) || nextOps.get(input).isEmpty()) {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Can't set a system input w/o any next operators. input:" + input);
+    }
+    if (!inputEntities.contains(input)) {
+      inputEntities.add(input);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<EntityName> getSystemInputs() {
+    return this.inputEntities;
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.task.sql;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.Operator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.RelationOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.operators.TupleOperator;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.router.OperatorRouter;
+import org.apache.samza.system.OutgoingMessageEnvelope;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+import org.apache.samza.task.TaskCoordinator;
+
+
+/**
+ * Example implementation of a <code>SqlMessageCollector</code> that uses <code>OperatorRouter</code>
+ *
+ */
+public class OperatorMessageCollector implements SqlMessageCollector {
+
+  private final MessageCollector collector;
+  private final TaskCoordinator coordinator;
+  private final OperatorRouter rteCntx;
+
+  public OperatorMessageCollector(MessageCollector collector, TaskCoordinator coordinator, OperatorRouter rteCntx) {
+    this.collector = collector;
+    this.coordinator = coordinator;
+    this.rteCntx = rteCntx;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(Relation deltaRelation) throws Exception {
+    for (RelationOperator op : this.rteCntx.getRelationOperators(deltaRelation.getName())) {
+      op.process(deltaRelation, this);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(Tuple tuple) throws Exception {
+    for (TupleOperator op : this.rteCntx.getTupleOperators(tuple.getStreamName())) {
+      op.process(tuple, this);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void timeout(List<EntityName> outputs) throws Exception {
+    for (EntityName output : outputs) {
+      for (Operator op : this.rteCntx.getNextOperators(output)) {
+        op.window(this, this.coordinator);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void send(OutgoingMessageEnvelope envelope) {
+    this.collector.send(envelope);
+  }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.samza.task.sql;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.EntityName;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Relation;
+import org.apache.samza.sql.api.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.samza.task.MessageCollector;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class defines the interface class to be used by the operators to send their output via runtime system resources,
+ * s.t. the output system streams, the system storage, or <code>OperatorRouter</code>.
+ *
+ */
+public interface SqlMessageCollector extends MessageCollector {
+
+  /**
+   * This method allows the current operator send its relation output to next
+   *
+   * @param deltaRelation The delta <code>Relation</code> output generated by the current operator
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void send(Relation deltaRelation) throws Exception;
+
+  /**
+   * This method allows the current operator send its tuple output to next
+   *
+   * @param tuple The <code>Tuple</code> object generated by the current operator
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void send(Tuple tuple) throws Exception;
+
+  /**
+   * This method allows the current operator triggers timeout actions via the <code>SqlMessageCollector</code>.
+   *
+   * <p>This method sets timeout events to the corresponding <code>outputEntities</code> s.t. the next operators
+   * attached to those entities will be notified of the timeout.
+   *
+   * @param outputEntities The list of output entities via which the timeout event needs to be sent to
+   * @throws Exception Throws exception if failed
+   */
+  void timeout(List<EntityName> outputEntities) throws Exception;
+
+}