streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/StateStore.java

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package org.apache.kafka.streams.processor;

/**
 * A storage engine for managing state maintained by a stream processor.
 *
 * <p>
 * This interface does not specify any query capabilities, which, of course,
 * would be query engine specific. Instead it just specifies the minimum
 * functionality required to reload a storage engine from its changelog as well
 * as basic lifecycle management.
 * </p>
 */
public interface StateStore {

    /**
     * The name of this store.
     * @return the storage name
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * Initializes this state store
     */
    void init(ProcessorContext context, StateStore root);

    /**
     * Flush any cached data
     */
    void flush();

    /**
     * Close the storage engine
     */
    void close();

    /**
     * Return if the storage is persistent or not.
     *
     * @return  {@code true} if the storage is persistent&mdash;{@code false} otherwise
     */
    boolean persistent();
}