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+package org.broadinstitute.sting.playground.gatk.walkers;
+
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.LocusContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.*;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.*;
+
+/**
+ * PrintRODsWalker prints out all of the RODs that it sees (using the ROD's toString method)
+ */
+@Requires(value={DataSource.REFERENCE},referenceMetaData=@RMD(name="variant",type=ReferenceOrderedDatum.class))
+public class PrintRODsWalker extends RefWalker<Integer, Integer> {
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the number of loci processed to zero.
+     *
+     * @return 0
+     */
+    public Integer reduceInit() { return 0; }
+
+    /**
+     * For each site of interest, rescore the genotype likelihoods by applying the specified feature set.
+     *
+     * @param tracker  the meta-data tracker
+     * @param ref      the reference base
+     * @param context  the context for the given locus
+     * @return 1 if the locus was successfully processed, 0 if otherwise
+     */
+    public Integer map(RefMetaDataTracker tracker, char ref, LocusContext context) {
+        ReferenceOrderedDatum variant = tracker.lookup("variant", null);
+
+        if (variant != null )
+            out.println(variant);
+
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Increment the number of rods processed.
+     *
+     * @param value result of the map.
+     * @param sum   accumulator for the reduce.
+     * @return the new number of rods processed.
+     */
+    public Integer reduce(Integer value, Integer sum) {
+        return sum + value;
+    }
+}
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