core/src/main/java/org/apache/ki/session/mgt/eis/SessionDAO.java

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package org.apache.ki.session.mgt.eis;

import org.apache.ki.session.Session;
import org.apache.ki.session.UnknownSessionException;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Collection;


/**
 * Data Access Object design pattern specification to enable {@link Session} access to an
 * EIS (Enterprise Information System).  It provides your four typical CRUD methods:
 * {@link #create}, {@link #readSession(java.io.Serializable)}, {@link #update(org.apache.ki.session.Session)},
 * and {@link #delete(org.apache.ki.session.Session)}.
 * <p/>
 * The remaining {@link #getActiveSessions()} method exists as a support mechanism to pre-emptively orphaned sessions,
 * typically by {@link org.apache.ki.session.mgt.ValidatingSessionManager ValidatingSessionManager}s), and should
 * be as performant as possible, especially if there are thousands of active sessions.  Large scale/high performance
 * implementations will often return a subset of the total active sessions and perform validation a little more
 * frequently, rather than return a massive set and infrequently validate.
 *
 * @author Les Hazlewood
 * @since 0.1
 */
public interface SessionDAO {

    /**
     * Inserts a new Session record into the underling EIS (e.g. Relational database, file system, mainframe,
     * etc, depending on the DAO implementation).
     * <p/>
     * After this method is invoked, the {@link org.apache.ki.session.Session#getId()}
     * method executed on the argument must return a valid session identifier.  That is, the following should
     * always be true:
     * <p/>
     * <code>Serializable id = create( session );<br/>
     * id.equals( session.getId() ) == true</code>
     * <p/>
     * Implementations are free to throw any exceptions that might occur due to
     * integrity violation constraints or other EIS related errors.
     *
     * @param session the {@link org.apache.ki.session.Session} object to create in the EIS.
     * @return the EIS id (e.g. primary key) of the created <tt>Session</tt> object.
     */
    Serializable create(Session session);

    /**
     * Retrieves the session from the EIS uniquely identified by the specified
     * <tt>sessionId</tt>.
     *
     * @param sessionId the system-wide unique identifier of the Session object to retrieve from
     *                  the EIS.
     * @return the persisted session in the EIS identified by <tt>sessionId</tt>.
     * @throws UnknownSessionException if there is no EIS record for any session with the
     *                                 specified <tt>sessionId</tt>
     */
    Session readSession(Serializable sessionId) throws UnknownSessionException;

    /**
     * Updates (persists) data from a previously created Session instance in the EIS identified by
     * <tt>{@link Session#getId() session.getId()}</tt>.  This effectively propagates
     * the data in the argument to the EIS record previously saved.
     * <p/>
     * In addition to UnknownSessionException, implementations are free to throw any other
     * exceptions that might occur due to integrity violation constraints or other EIS related
     * errors.
     *
     * @param session the Session to update
     * @throws org.apache.ki.session.UnknownSessionException
     *          if no existing EIS session record exists with the
     *          identifier of {@link Session#getId() session.getSessionId()}
     */
    void update(Session session) throws UnknownSessionException;

    /**
     * Deletes the associated EIS record of the specified <tt>session</tt>.  If there never
     * existed a session EIS record with the identifier of
     * {@link Session#getId() session.getId()}, then this method does nothing.
     *
     * @param session the session to delete.
     */
    void delete(Session session);

    /**
     * Returns all sessions in the EIS that are considered active, meaning all sessions that
     * haven't been stopped/expired.  This is primarily used to validate potential orphans.
     * <p/>
     * If there are no active sessions in the EIS, this method may return an empty collection or {@code null}.
     * <h4>Performance</h4>
     * This method should be as performant as possible, especially in larger systems where there might be
     * thousands of active sessions, especially if there are thousands of active sessions.  Large scale/high performance
     * implementations will often return a subset of the total active sessions and perform validation a little more
     * frequently, rather than return a massive set and validate infrequently.  If performant and possible, it would
     * make sense to return the oldest unstopped sessions available, ordered by
     * {@link org.apache.ki.session.Session#getLastAccessTime() lastAccessTime}.
     * <h4>Smart Results</h4>
     * <em>Ideally</em> this method would only return active sessions that the EIS was certain should be invalided.
     * Typically that is any session that is not stopped and whos lastAccessTimestamp is older than the session timeout.
     * <p/>
     * For example, if sessions were backed by a relational database or SQL-92 'queryable' enterprise cache, you might
     * return something similar to the results returned by this query (assuming
     * {@link org.apache.ki.session.mgt.SimpleSession SimpleSession}s were being stored):
     * <pre>select * from sessions s where s.lastAccessTimestamp < ? and s.stopTimestamp is null</pre>
     * where the <code>?</code> parameter is a date instance equal to 'now' minus the session timeout
     * (e.g. now - 30 minutes).
     *
     * @return a Collection of <tt>Session</tt>s that are considered active, or an
     *         empty collection or <tt>null</tt> if there are no active sessions.
     */
    Collection<Session> getActiveSessions();
}