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A library for relational-database-based persistence in Java.

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//
// Depot library - a Java relational persistence library
// http://code.google.com/p/depot/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE

package com.samskivert.depot;

/**
 * An augmented cache invalidator interface for invalidators that can ensure that they are
 * operating on the proper persistent record class.
 */
public interface ValidatingCacheInvalidator extends CacheInvalidator
{
    /**
     * Validates that this invalidator operates on the supplied persistent record class. This helps
     * to catch programmer errors where one record type is used for a query clause and another is
     * used for the cache invalidator.
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException thrown if the supplied persistent record class does not
     * match the class that this invalidator will flush from the cache.
     */
    public void validateFlushType (Class pClass);
}