trunk/oak-store-spi/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/spi/state/NodeStoreBranch.java

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package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state;

import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.api.CommitFailedException;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.CommitHook;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.CommitInfo;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

/**
 * An instance of this class represents a private branch of the tree in a
 * {@link NodeStore} to which transient changes can be applied and later merged
 * back or discarded.
 */
public interface NodeStoreBranch {

    /**
     * Returns the base state of this branch.
     * The base state is the state of the tree as it was at the time
     * this branch was created.
     *
     * @return root node state
     */
    @NotNull
    NodeState getBase();

    /**
     * Returns the head state of this branch.
     * The head state is the state resulting from the
     * base state by applying all subsequent modifications to this branch
     * by {@link #setRoot(NodeState)}.
     *
     * @return root node state
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the branch is already merged
     */
    @NotNull
    NodeState getHead();

    /**
     * Updates the state of the content tree of this private branch.
     *
     * @param newRoot new root node state
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the branch is already merged
     */
    void setRoot(NodeState newRoot);

    /**
     * Merges the changes in this branch to the main content tree.
     * Merging is done by rebasing the changes in this branch on top of
     * the current head revision followed by a fast forward merge.
     *
     * @param hook the commit hook to apply while merging changes
     * @param info commit info associated with this merge operation
     * @return the node state resulting from the merge.
     * @throws CommitFailedException if the merge failed
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the branch is already merged
     */
    @NotNull
    NodeState merge(@NotNull CommitHook hook, @NotNull CommitInfo info)
            throws CommitFailedException;

    /**
     * Rebase the changes from this branch on top of the current
     * root.
     */
    void rebase();

}