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-rw-r--r--python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py
index c9648173..073725ad 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py
@@ -320,6 +320,12 @@ class EntityImporter:
return
def parse_record(self, raw_record):
+ """
+ Returns an entity class type, or None if we should skip this one.
+
+ May have side-effects (eg, create related entities), but shouldn't
+ update/mutate the actual entity.
+ """
# implementations should fill this in
raise NotImplementedError