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package org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.joda.time.Instant;

/**
 * A {@code BoundedWindow} represents a finite grouping of elements, with an
 * upper bound (larger timestamps represent more recent data) on the timestamps
 * of elements that can be placed in the window. This finiteness means that for
 * every window, at some point in time, all data for that window will have
 * arrived and can be processed together.
 *
 * <p>Windows must also implement {@link Object#equals} and
 * {@link Object#hashCode} such that windows that are logically equal will
 * be treated as equal by {@code equals()} and {@code hashCode()}.
 */
public abstract class BoundedWindow {
  // The min and max timestamps that won't overflow when they are converted to
  // usec.
  public static final Instant TIMESTAMP_MIN_VALUE =
      new Instant(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS.toMillis(Long.MIN_VALUE));
  public static final Instant TIMESTAMP_MAX_VALUE =
      new Instant(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS.toMillis(Long.MAX_VALUE));

  /**
   * Returns the inclusive upper bound of timestamps for values in this window.
   */
  public abstract Instant maxTimestamp();
}

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+  public static String formatTimestamp(Instant timestamp) %7B%0A    if (timestamp.equals(TIMESTAMP_MIN_VALUE)) %7B%0A      return timestamp.toString() + %22 (TIMESTAMP_MIN_VALUE)%22;%0A    %7D else if (timestamp.equals(TIMESTAMP_MAX_VALUE)) %7B%0A      return timestamp.toString() + %22 (TIMESTAMP_MAX_VALUE)%22;%0A    %7D else if (timestamp.equals(GlobalWindow.INSTANCE.maxTimestamp())) %7B%0A      return timestamp.toString() + %22 (end of global window)%22;%0A    %7D else %7B%0A      return timestamp.toString();%0A    %7D%0A  %7D%0A%0A
   /**%0A  

Add informative Instant formatter to BoundedWindow