InputSplitProvider (Flink : Runtime 2.1.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

RpcInputSplitProvider
```
@Public
public interface InputSplitProvider
```
An input split provider can be successively queried to provide a series of InputSplit objects a task is supposed to consume in the course of its execution.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`org.apache.flink.core.io.InputSplit`	`getNextInputSplit(ClassLoader userCodeClassLoader)`	Requests the next input split to be consumed by the calling task.

- Method Detail
  - getNextInputSplit
```
org.apache.flink.core.io.InputSplit getNextInputSplit(ClassLoader userCodeClassLoader)
                                               throws InputSplitProviderException
```
    Requests the next input split to be consumed by the calling task.
    
    Parameters:
    
    userCodeClassLoader - used to deserialize input splits
    
    Returns:
    
    the next input split to be consumed by the calling task or null if the task shall not consume any further input splits.
    
    Throws:
    
    InputSplitProviderException - if fetching the next input split fails