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/**
 *        CloudGraph Community Edition (CE) License
 * 
 * This is a community release of CloudGraph, a dual-license suite of
 * Service Data Object (SDO) 2.1 services designed for relational and 
 * big-table style "cloud" databases, such as HBase and others. 
 * This particular copy of the software is released under the 
 * version 2 of the GNU General Public License. CloudGraph was developed by 
 * TerraMeta Software, Inc.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2013, TerraMeta Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * 
 * General License information can be found below.
 * 
 * This distribution may include materials developed by third
 * parties. For license and attribution notices for these
 * materials, please refer to the documentation that accompanies
 * this distribution (see the "Licenses for Third-Party Components"
 * appendix) or view the online documentation at 
 * . 
 */
package org.cloudgraph.hbase.io;

import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import commonj.sdo.DataObject;
import commonj.sdo.Type;


/**
 * Encapsulates one or more
 * graph table reader components for federation across
 * multiple physical tables and/or physical table rows. 
 * 
 * Acts as a container for one or more {@link TableReader} elements
 * encapsulating a set of component table reader operations 
 * for federation across multiple tables, or a single table
 * in the most simple (degenerate) case.  
 * 
 * @see org.cloudgraph.hbase.io.GraphTableReader
 * @see org.cloudgraph.state.GraphTable
 * @author Scott Cinnamond
 * @since 0.5.1
 */
public interface DistributedReader  extends DistributedOperation {
	
	/**
	 * Returns the table reader for the given 
	 * configured table name.
	 * @param tableName the name of the configured table. 
	 * @return the table reader for the given 
	 * configured table name.
	 */
    public TableReader getTableReader(String tableName);
    
    
	/**
	 * Returns the table reader for the given 
	 * qualified type name.
	 * @param qualifiedTypeName the qualified type name. 
	 * @return the table reader for the given 
	 * qualified type name.
	 */
    public TableReader getTableReader(QName qualifiedTypeName);

    /**
	 * Adds the given table reader to the container
	 * @param reader the table reader. 
	 */
    public void addTableReader(TableReader reader);

	/**
	 * Returns the count of table readers for this 
	 * container.
	 * @return the count of table readers for this 
	 * container
	 */
    public int getTableReaderCount();
    
    /**
     * Returns all table readers for the this container
     * @return all table readers for the this container
     */
    public List getTableReaders();
    
    /**
     * Returns the table reader associated with the
     * data graph root. 
     * @return the table reader associated with the
     * data graph root.
     */
    public TableReader getRootTableReader();

    /**
     * Sets the table reader associated with the
     * data graph root. 
     * @param reader the table reader
     */
    public void setRootTableReader(TableReader reader);


    /**
     * Returns the row reader associated with the given data object
     * @param dataObject the data object
     * @return the row reader associated with the given data object
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given data object
     * is not associated with any row reader.
     */
    public RowReader getRowReader(DataObject dataObject);
    
    public void mapRowReader(DataObject dataObject, 
    		RowReader rowReader);
    
    /**
     * Returns a list of types associated
     * with the given table operation. 
     * @param reader the table operation
     * @return a list of types associated
     * with the given table operation. 
     */
	public List getTypes(TableReader operation);

	/**
     * Frees resources associated with this reader and any
     * component readers. 
     */
    public void clear();
}