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package org.apache.sling.distribution.communication;

/**
 * The different states a {@link org.apache.sling.distribution.communication.DistributionRequest} can have during its lifecycle.
 * Allowed transitions of {@link org.apache.sling.distribution.communication.DistributionRequestState} for a certain
 * {@link org.apache.sling.distribution.communication.DistributionRequest} are:
 * {@code #DISTRIBUTED} -> ø
 * {@code #DROPPED} -> ø
 * {@code #ACCEPTED} -> {@code #DROPPED}
 * {@code #ACCEPTED} -> {@code #DISTRIBUTED}
 * <p/>
 * {@link org.apache.sling.distribution.communication.DistributionRequest}s executed synchronously
 * will only results in {@code #DISTRIBUTED} or {@code #DROPPED} {@link org.apache.sling.distribution.communication.DistributionRequestState}s
 * while requests executed asynchronously can result in any of {@code #DISTRIBUTED}, {@code #DROPPED} or {@code #ACCEPTED} states.
 */
public enum DistributionRequestState {

    /**
     * The request has completed and the content has been successfully distributed
     * (created, transported and persisted) from the source instance to the target instance.
     */
    DISTRIBUTED,

    /**
     * The request has been dropped and the content could not be successfully
     * distributed from the source to target instance, this means the request
     * execution failed during one of: creation, queueing, transport, persistence.
     */
    DROPPED,

    /**
     * The request has been accepted, as a consequence the content to be distributed
     * has been created and queued (and it will be eventually processed asynchronously).
     */
    ACCEPTED

}