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| package org.apache.openjpa.slice; |
| |
| import java.util.List; |
| import java.util.Random; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * Policy to select one of the physical databases referred as <em>slice</em> |
| * in which a given persistent instance will be stored. |
| * |
| * The user application is required to implement this interface. Slice will |
| * invoke the single method of this interface to determine the target slice for |
| * a newly persistent or a detached instance being merged. |
| * |
| * @author Pinaki Poddar |
| * |
| */ |
| public interface DistributionPolicy { |
| /** |
| * Gets the name of the target slice where the given newly persistent or |
| * the detached, to-be-merged instance will be stored. |
| * <br> |
| * If the current state of the given instance is sufficient to determine |
| * the target slice, return null. In that case, the runtime will callback |
| * this method again before the instance being flushed to the datastore. |
| * By then, the policy <em>must</em> be able to determine the target slice. |
| * |
| * @param pc The newly persistent or to-be-merged object. |
| * @param slices list of names of the active slices. The ordering of |
| * the list is either explicit <code>openjpa.slice.Names</code> property |
| * or implicit i.e. alphabetic order of available identifiers if |
| * <code>openjpa.slice.Names</code> is unspecified. |
| * @param context the generic persistence context managing the given |
| * instance. |
| * |
| * @return identifier of the slice. This name must match one of the |
| * given slice names. |
| * @see DistributedConfiguration#getActiveSliceNames() |
| */ |
| String distribute(Object pc, List<String> slices, Object context); |
| |
| /** |
| * Implements a default distribution policy to store the given |
| * instance to a randomly selected available slice. |
| * |
| */ |
| public static class Default implements DistributionPolicy { |
| private static Random RNG = new Random(); |
| public String distribute(Object pc, List<String> slices, Object ctx) { |
| return slices.get(RNG.nextInt(slices.size())); |
| } |
| } |
| } |