/*

  *   SONEWS News Server

  *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors

  *

  *   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 org.sonews.storage;

 import java.util.List;

 import org.sonews.feed.Subscription;

 import org.sonews.util.Pair;

 /**

  * A generic storage backend interface.

  * @author Christian Lins

  * @since sonews/1.0

  */

 public interface Storage

 {

   /**

    * Stores the given Article in the storage.

    * @param art

    * @throws StorageBackendException

    */

   void addArticle(Article art)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   void addEvent(long timestamp, int type, long groupID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   void addGroup(String groupname, int flags)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int countArticles()

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int countGroups()

     throws StorageBackendException;

   void delete(String messageID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   Article getArticle(String messageID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   Article getArticle(long articleIndex, long groupID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   List<Pair<Long, ArticleHead>> getArticleHeads(Group group, long first, long last)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   List<Pair<Long, String>> getArticleHeaders(Channel channel, long start, long end,

     String header, String pattern)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   long getArticleIndex(Article art, Group group)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   List<Long> getArticleNumbers(long groupID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   String getConfigValue(String key)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int getEventsCount(int eventType, long startTimestamp, long endTimestamp,

     Channel channel)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   double getEventsPerHour(int key, long gid)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int getFirstArticleNumber(Group group)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   Group getGroup(String name)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   List<Channel> getGroups()

     throws StorageBackendException;

   /**

    * Retrieves the collection of groupnames that are associated with the

    * given list address.

    * @param inetaddress

    * @return

    * @throws StorageBackendException

    */

   List<String> getGroupsForList(String listAddress)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int getLastArticleNumber(Group group)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   /**

    * Returns a list of email addresses that are related to the given

    * groupname. In most cases the list may contain only one entry.

    * @param groupname

    * @return

    * @throws StorageBackendException

    */

   List<String> getListsForGroup(String groupname)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   String getOldestArticle()

     throws StorageBackendException;

   int getPostingsCount(String groupname)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   List<Subscription> getSubscriptions(int type)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   boolean isArticleExisting(String messageID)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   boolean isGroupExisting(String groupname)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   void purgeGroup(Group group)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   void setConfigValue(String key, String value)

     throws StorageBackendException;

   boolean update(Group group)

     throws StorageBackendException;

 }