Subclass must implement this. The assumption is an IOException will be thrown if something goes wrong during the processing that could have been caused by a writer committing.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Returns a String that represents the current Object.