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package oracle.kv.impl.api.table;

/**
 * TableMetadataHelper
 *
 * Interface used by code that needs to acquire TableImpl instances. It will
 * be extended to also allow callbacks to manipulate table and namespace names.
 */

public interface TableMetadataHelper {

    /**
     * Returns the table object, if it exists, null if not.
     * @param tableName the table name, which may be a child table name of the
     * format parent.child
     * @return the table object, or null if it does not exist
     */
    public TableImpl getTable(String namespace, String tableName);

    /**
     * Returns the table object, if it exists, null if not.
     * @param tablePath the table name in component form where each component
     * is a parent or child table name.
     * @return the table object, or null if it does not exist
     */
    public TableImpl getTable(String namespace, String[] tablePath);
}