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package com.sun.ejb.spi.container;

import jakarta.ejb.DuplicateKeyException;

/**
 * There are cases where the container would need to interact with the 
 * persistence manager. Some known cases are listed below
 * 1. provide the user with a mechanism to flush changes to the database 
 *    at the end of a method with out waiting until the end of the transaction. 
 * 2. for read only beans provide a mechanism to have the master copy of the bean  
 *    sync up with the database record.
 *
 * Currently the bean concrete implementation that is created as part of the codegen
 * would implement this interface. 
 *
 * @author Pramod Gopinath
 */


public interface BeanStateSynchronization {
    /**
     * Provides a mechanism to flush changes to the database w/o waiting for
     * the end of the transaction, based on some descriptor values set by the user. 
     * The container would call this method in the postInvoke(), only if the flush
     * is enabled for the current method and there were no other exceptions set 
     * into inv.exception.
     */
    public void ejb__flush() 
        throws DuplicateKeyException;

    /**
     * On receiving this message the PM would update its master copy
     * by fetching the latest information for the primary key from the database
     */
    public void ejb__refresh(Object primaryKey);


    /**
     * On receiving this message the PM would delete from its master copy
     * the details related to the primaryKey
     */
    public void ejb__remove(Object primaryKey);
}