chris@3: /*
chris@3:  *   SONEWS News Server
chris@3:  *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
chris@3:  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
chris@3:  *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
chris@3:  *   (at your option) any later version.
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
chris@3:  *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
chris@3:  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
chris@3:  *   GNU General Public License for more details.
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
chris@3:  *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
chris@3:  */
chris@3: 
chris@3: package org.sonews.storage;
chris@3: 
chris@3: import java.util.ArrayList;
chris@3: import java.util.List;
chris@3: import org.sonews.util.Pair;
chris@3: 
chris@3: /**
chris@3:  * A logical communication Channel is the a generic structural element for sets
chris@3:  * of messages; e.g. a Newsgroup for a set of Articles.
chris@3:  * A Channel can either be a real set of messages or an aggregated set of
chris@3:  * several subsets.
chris@3:  * @author Christian Lins
chris@3:  * @since sonews/1.0
chris@3:  */
chris@3: public abstract class Channel
chris@3: {
chris@3: 
chris@3:   /**
chris@3:    * If this flag is set the Group is no real newsgroup but a mailing list
chris@3:    * mirror. In that case every posting and receiving mails must go through
chris@3:    * the mailing list gateway.
chris@3:    */
chris@3:   public static final int MAILINGLIST = 0x1;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   /**
chris@3:    * If this flag is set the Group is marked as readonly and the posting
chris@3:    * is prohibited. This can be useful for groups that are synced only in
chris@3:    * one direction.
chris@3:    */
chris@3:   public static final int READONLY    = 0x2;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   /**
chris@3:    * If this flag is set the Group is marked as deleted and must not occur
chris@3:    * in any output. The deletion is done lazily by a low priority daemon.
chris@3:    */
chris@3:   public static final int DELETED     = 0x80;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public static List<Channel> getAll()
chris@3:   {
chris@3:     List<Channel> all = new ArrayList<Channel>();
chris@3: 
chris@3:     /*List<Channel> agroups = AggregatedGroup.getAll();
chris@3:     if(agroups != null)
chris@3:     {
chris@3:       all.addAll(agroups);
chris@3:     }*/
chris@3: 
chris@3:     List<Channel> groups = Group.getAll();
chris@3:     if(groups != null)
chris@3:     {
chris@3:       all.addAll(groups);
chris@3:     }
chris@3: 
chris@3:     return all;
chris@3:   }
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public static Channel getByName(String name)
chris@3:   {
cli@13:     return Group.getByName(name);
chris@3:   }
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract Article getArticle(long idx)
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract List<Pair<Long, ArticleHead>> getArticleHeads(
chris@3:     final long first, final long last)
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract List<Long> getArticleNumbers()
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract long getFirstArticleNumber()
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract long getIndexOf(Article art)
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract long getInternalID();
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract long getLastArticleNumber()
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract String getName();
chris@3:   
chris@3:   public abstract long getPostingsCount()
chris@3:     throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract boolean isDeleted();
chris@3: 
chris@3:   public abstract boolean isWriteable();
chris@3: 
chris@3: }