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package org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read;

import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.expressions.filter.Filter;

/**
 * A mix-in interface for {@link ScanBuilder}. Data sources can implement this interface to
 * push down V2 {@link Filter} to the data source and reduce the size of the data to be read.
 * Please Note that this interface is preferred over {@link SupportsPushDownFilters}, which uses
 * V1 {@link org.apache.spark.sql.sources.Filter} and is less efficient due to the
 * internal -> external data conversion.
 *
 * @since 3.3.0
 */
@Evolving
public interface SupportsPushDownV2Filters extends ScanBuilder {

  /**
   * Pushes down filters, and returns filters that need to be evaluated after scanning.
   * <p>
   * Rows should be returned from the data source if and only if all of the filters match. That is,
   * filters must be interpreted as ANDed together.
   */
  Filter[] pushFilters(Filter[] filters);

  /**
   * Returns the filters that are pushed to the data source via {@link #pushFilters(Filter[])}.
   * <p>
   * There are 3 kinds of filters:
   * <ol>
   *  <li>pushable filters which don't need to be evaluated again after scanning.</li>
   *  <li>pushable filters which still need to be evaluated after scanning, e.g. parquet row
   *  group filter.</li>
   *  <li>non-pushable filters.</li>
   * </ol>
   * <p>
   * Both case 1 and 2 should be considered as pushed filters and should be returned by this method.
   * <p>
   * It's possible that there is no filters in the query and {@link #pushFilters(Filter[])}
   * is never called, empty array should be returned for this case.
   */
  Filter[] pushedFilters();
}

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