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package com.bigdata.ganglia;
import java.util.Iterator;
/**
* A read-only view of the soft state of the cluster as maintained through the
* ganglia protocol.
*
* @author Bryan Thompson
* @version $Id$
*/
public interface IGangliaState {
/**
* Return the name of this host.
*/
public String getHostName();
/**
* Return a snapshot of the known hosts.
*
* @return The names of the known hosts and never null.
*/
public String[] getKnownHosts();
/**
* Return an iterator which will visit all timestamped metrics for the
* specified host.
*
* @param hostName
* The host name.
*
* @return The iterator and never null.
*/
public Iterator iterator(
final String hostName);
/**
* Return the metadata for the given metric.
*
* @param metricName
* The metric name (as it appears in ganglia messages).
*
* @return The metadata for that metric iff it is a known metric and
* otherwise null.
*/
public IGangliaMetadataMessage getMetadata(final String metricName);
/**
* Return current {@link TimestampMetricValue} of metric on host
* (thread-safe).
*
* If an {@link IGangliaMetadataMessage} is declared for that name, then
* either the pre-existing {@link TimestampMetricValue} will be returned
* -or- a new {@link TimestampMetricValue} will be atomically created and
* returned.
*
* Otherwise, this method will return null since it lacks the
* necessary information to create an {@link IGangliaMetadataMessage} by
* itself.
*
* @param hostName
* The name of the host.
* @param metricName
* The name of the metric.
*
* @return The current value of the metric on that host -or-
* null if there is no {@link IGangliaMetadataMessage}
* for that metric.
*/
public ITimestampMetricValue getMetric(final String hostName,
final String metricName);
}