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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.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

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


/**
 * Encapsulates one or more
 * graph table writer components for federation across
 * multiple physical tables and/or physical table rows. 
 * 
 * Acts as a container for one or more {@link TableWriter} elements
 * encapsulating a set of component table write operations 
 * for federation across multiple tables, or a single table
 * in the most simple (degenerate) case.  
 * 
 * @see org.cloudgraph.hbase.io.GraphTableWriter
 * @see org.cloudgraph.state.GraphTable
 * @author Scott Cinnamond
 * @since 0.5.1
 */
public interface DistributedWriter extends DistributedOperation {
	
	/**
	 * Returns the table writer for the given 
	 * configured table name.
	 * @param tableName the name of the configured table. 
	 * @return the table writer for the given 
	 * configured table name.
	 */
    public TableWriter getTableWriter(String tableName);
    
    
	/**
	 * Adds the given table writer to the container
	 * @param writer the table writer. 
	 */
    public void addTableWriter(TableWriter writer);

	/**
	 * Returns the count of table writers for this 
	 * container.
	 * @return the count of table writers for this 
	 * container
	 */
    public int getTableWriterCount();
    
    /**
     * Returns all table writers for the this container
     * @return all table writers for the this container
     */
    public List getTableWriters();
    
    /**
     * Returns the table writer associated with the
     * data graph root. 
     * @return the table writer associated with the
     * data graph root.
     */
    public TableWriter getRootTableWriter();

    /**
     * Sets the table writer associated with the
     * data graph root. 
     * @param writer the table writer
     */
    public void setRootTableWriter(TableWriter writer);


    /**
     * Returns the row writer associated with the given data object
     * or null if no row writer is associated.
     * @param dataObject the data object
     * @return the row writer associated with the given data 
     * object or null if no row writer is associated.
     */
    public RowWriter findRowWriter(DataObject dataObject);
    

    /**
     * Returns the row writer associated with the given data object
     * @param dataObject the data object
     * @return the row writer associated with the given data object
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given data object
     * is not associated with any row writer.
     */
    public RowWriter getRowWriter(DataObject dataObject);

    /**
     * Creates and returns a new row writer associated 
     * with the given data object.
     * @param dataObject the data object
     * @return a new row writer associated 
     * with the given data object.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given data object
     * is already associated with a row writer.
     */
    public RowWriter createRowWriter(DataObject dataObject)
        throws IOException;    
    
    /**
     * 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(TableWriter operation);
}