package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers;

import net.sf.samtools.SAMRecord;
import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.ReadMetaDataTracker;

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@Requires({DataSource.READS, DataSource.REFERENCE_BASES})
public abstract class ReadWalker<MapType, ReduceType> extends Walker<MapType, ReduceType> {
    public boolean requiresOrderedReads() { return false; }
    
    // Do we actually want to operate on the context?
    /** Must return true for reads that need to be processed. Reads, for which this method return false will
     * be skipped by the engine and never passed to the walker.
     */
    public boolean filter(char[] ref, SAMRecord read) {
        // We are keeping all the reads
        return true;
    }

    // Map over the org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.contexts.AlignmentContext
    public abstract MapType map(char[] ref, SAMRecord read, ReadMetaDataTracker metaDataTracker);
}