src/org/sonews/storage/StorageProvider.java
author cli
Sun Sep 11 15:05:04 2011 +0200 (2011-09-11)
changeset 48 b78e77619152
parent 37 74139325d305
permissions -rwxr-xr-x
Merge Channel and Group classes.
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/*
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 *   SONEWS News Server
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 *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
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 *
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 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 *   (at your option) any later version.
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 *
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 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *
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 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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 */
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package org.sonews.storage;
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/**
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 * Provides access to storage backend instances.
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 * @author Christian Lins
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 * @since sonews/1.0
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 */
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public interface StorageProvider {
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	public boolean isSupported(String uri);
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	/**
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	 * This method returns the reference to the associated storage.
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	 * The reference MAY be unique for each thread. In any case it MUST be
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	 * thread-safe to use this method.
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	 * @return The reference to the associated Storage.
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	 */
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	public Storage storage(Thread thread)
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			throws StorageBackendException;
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}