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package org.apache.openjpa.slice;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
/**
* Policy to select one of the physical databases referred as slice
* in which a given persistent instance will be stored.
*
* The user application is required to implement this interface. Slice will
* invoke the single method of this interface to determine the target slice for
* a newly persistent or a detached instance being merged.
*
* @author Pinaki Poddar
*
*/
public interface DistributionPolicy {
/**
* Gets the name of the target slice where the given newly persistent or
* the detached, to-be-merged instance will be stored.
*
* If the current state of the given instance is sufficient to determine
* the target slice, return null. In that case, the runtime will callback
* this method again before the instance being flushed to the datastore.
* By then, the policy must be able to determine the target slice.
*
* @param pc The newly persistent or to-be-merged object.
* @param slices list of names of the active slices. The ordering of
* the list is either explicit openjpa.slice.Names property
* or implicit i.e. alphabetic order of available identifiers if
* openjpa.slice.Names is unspecified.
* @param context the generic persistence context managing the given
* instance.
*
* @return identifier of the slice. This name must match one of the
* given slice names.
* @see DistributedConfiguration#getActiveSliceNames()
*/
String distribute(Object pc, List slices, Object context);
/**
* Implements a default distribution policy to store the given
* instance to a randomly selected available slice.
*
*/
public static class Default implements DistributionPolicy {
private static Random RNG = new Random();
@Override
public String distribute(Object pc, List slices, Object ctx) {
return slices.get(RNG.nextInt(slices.size()));
}
}
}