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package org.apache.flink.api.java.io;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Public;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.io.OutputFormat;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;

/**
 * An output format that simply discards all elements.
 *
 * @param <T> The type of the elements accepted by the output format.
 * @deprecated All Flink DataSet APIs are deprecated since Flink 1.18 and will be removed in a
 *     future Flink major version. You can still build your application in DataSet, but you should
 *     move to either the DataStream and/or Table API.
 * @see <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=158866741">
 *     FLIP-131: Consolidate the user-facing Dataflow SDKs/APIs (and deprecate the DataSet API</a>
 */
@Deprecated
@Public
public class DiscardingOutputFormat<T> implements OutputFormat<T> {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    public void configure(Configuration parameters) {}

    @Override
    public void open(int taskNumber, int numTasks) {}

    @Override
    public void writeRecord(T record) {}

    @Override
    public void close() {}
}
