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+/*
+Real-time Online/Offline Charging System (OCS) for Telecom & ISP environments
+Copyright (C) ITsysCOM GmbH
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
+*/
+
+package cdrc
+
+import (
+	"github.com/cgrates/cgrates/utils"
+)
+
+type CDRCReader interface {
+	Read() (*utils.CGREvent, error) // Process a single record in the CDR file, return a slice of CDRs since based on configuration we can have more templates
+	Processed() int64               // number of records processed
+}