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package org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.step.map;

import org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Traversal;
import org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Traverser;

/**
 * A type of {@link MapStep} class which will transform the object of one {@link Traverser} into another. This class
 * simply requires the implementation of the {@link #map(Traverser.Admin)} method to extract the object of the given
 * {@link Traverser} and return the transformation of that object as {@code E}.
 *
 * @author Marko A. Rodriguez (http://markorodriguez.com)
 * @author Stephen Mallette (http://stephen.genoprime.com)
 */
public abstract class ScalarMapStep<S, E> extends MapStep<S,E> {
    public ScalarMapStep(final Traversal.Admin traversal) {
        super(traversal);
    }

    @Override
    protected Traverser.Admin<E> processNextStart() {
        final Traverser.Admin<S> traverser = this.starts.next();
        return traverser.split(this.map(traverser), this);
    }

    protected abstract E map(final Traverser.Admin<S> traverser);
}
