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The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

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package org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions;

import java.util.NavigableSet;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import org.apache.cassandra.schema.TableMetadata;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.Slices;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.*;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.*;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.ColumnFilter;

/**
 * In-memory representation of a Partition.
 *
 * Note that most of the storage engine works through iterators (UnfilteredPartitionIterator) to
 * avoid "materializing" a full partition/query response in memory as much as possible,
 * and so Partition objects should be use as sparingly as possible. There is a couple
 * of cases where we do need to represent partition in-memory (memtables and row cache).
 */
public interface Partition
{
    public TableMetadata metadata();
    public DecoratedKey partitionKey();
    public DeletionTime partitionLevelDeletion();

    public RegularAndStaticColumns columns();

    public EncodingStats stats();

    /**
     * Whether the partition object has no informations at all, including any deletion informations.
     */
    public boolean isEmpty();

    /**
     * Returns the row corresponding to the provided clustering, or null if there is not such row.
     *
     * @param clustering clustering key to search
     * @return row corresponding to the clustering, it's either null or non-empty row.
     */
    public @Nullable Row getRow(Clustering clustering);

    /**
     * Returns an UnfilteredRowIterator over all the rows/RT contained by this partition.
     */
    public UnfilteredRowIterator unfilteredIterator();

    /**
     * Returns an UnfilteredRowIterator over the rows/RT contained by this partition
     * selected by the provided slices.
     */
    public UnfilteredRowIterator unfilteredIterator(ColumnFilter columns, Slices slices, boolean reversed);

    /**
     * Returns an UnfilteredRowIterator over the rows/RT contained by this partition
     * selected by the provided clusterings.
     */
    public UnfilteredRowIterator unfilteredIterator(ColumnFilter columns, NavigableSet> clusteringsInQueryOrder, boolean reversed);
}