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package org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions;

import org.apache.cassandra.cache.IRowCacheEntry;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.Row;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.ISerializer;

/**
 * A partition stored in the partition cache.
 *
 * Note that in practice, the only implementation of this is {@link CachedBTreePartition},
 * we keep this interface mainly to make it clear what we need from partition in the cache
 * (that we don't otherwise)
 */
public interface CachedPartition extends Partition, IRowCacheEntry
{
    public static final ISerializer<CachedPartition> cacheSerializer = new CachedBTreePartition.Serializer();

    /**
     * The number of {@code Row} objects in this cached partition.
     *
     * Please note that this is <b>not</b> the number of <em>live</em> rows since
     * some of the row may only contains deleted (or expired) information.
     *
     * @return the number of row in the partition.
     */
    public int rowCount();

    /**
     * The number of rows that were live at the time the partition was cached.
     *
     * See {@link ColumnFamilyStore#isFilterFullyCoveredBy} to see why we need this.
     *
     * @return the number of rows in this partition that were live at the time the
     * partition was cached (this can be different from the number of live rows now
     * due to expiring cells).
     */
    public int cachedLiveRows();

    /**
     * The number of rows in this cached partition that have at least one non-expiring
     * non-deleted cell.
     *
     * Note that this is generally not a very meaningful number, but this is used by
     * {@link DataLimits#hasEnoughLiveData} as an optimization.
     *
     * @return the number of row that have at least one non-expiring non-deleted cell.
     */
    public int rowsWithNonExpiringCells();

    /**
     * The last row in this cached partition (in order words, the row with the
     * biggest clustering that the partition contains).
     *
     * @return the last row of the partition, or {@code null} if the partition is empty.
     */
    public Row lastRow();

    /**
     * The number of {@code cell} objects that are not tombstone in this cached partition.
     *
     * Please note that this is <b>not</b> the number of <em>live</em> cells since
     * some of the cells might be expired.
     *
     * @return the number of non tombstone cells in the partition.
     */
    public int nonTombstoneCellCount();

    /**
     * The number of cells in this cached partition that are neither tombstone nor expiring.
     *
     * Note that this is generally not a very meaningful number, but this is used by
     * {@link DataLimits#hasEnoughLiveData} as an optimization.
     *
     * @return the number of cells that are neither tombstones nor expiring.
     */
    public int nonExpiringLiveCells();
}