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/*
 * Copyright (c) 1998, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 */

// Contributors:
//     Oracle - initial API and implementation from Oracle TopLink
package org.eclipse.persistence.sessions;

import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;

/**
 * Purpose:
 * Define an interface for supplying TopLink with a Connection to
 * a JDBC database.
 * 
 * Description:
 * This interface defines the methods to be implemented that allow TopLink to
 * acquire a Connection to a JDBC database. There are only 2
 * methods that need to be implemented:
 * 

 * java.sql.Connection connect(java.util.Properties properties)

 * void toString(java.io.PrintWriter writer)
 * 
 * Once these methods have been implemented, an instance of the new
 * Connector can be  passed
 * to a JDBCLogin at startup. For example:
 * 
 * session.getLogin().setConnector(new FooConnector());

 * session.login();
 * 
 *
 * @see DatabaseLogin
 * @author Big Country
 * @since TOPLink/Java 2.1
 */
public interface Connector extends Serializable, Cloneable {

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Must be cloneable.
     */
    Object clone();

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Connect with the specified properties and return the Connection.
     * The properties are driver-specific; but usually contain the "user"
     * and "password". Additional
     * properties can be built by using JDBCLogin.setProperty(String propertyName,
     * Object propertyValue).
     * @return java.sql.Connection
     */
    Connection connect(Properties properties, Session session);

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Print something useful on the log. This information will be displayed
     * on the EclipseLink log (by default System.out) at login.
     * See the other implementations of this method for examples.
     */
    void toString(PrintWriter writer);

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Provide the details of my connection information. This is primarily for JMX runtime services.
     * @return java.lang.String
     */
    String getConnectionDetails();
}