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/**
 * Copyright 2011 Alexey Ragozin
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.gridkit.coherence.search;

import com.tangosol.util.Binary;

/**
 * This a helper interface providing some additional methods in context
 * of index operations invocation.
 * 
 * @author Alexey Ragozin ([email protected])
 */
public interface IndexInvocationContext {

    public Binary ensureBinaryKey(Object key);    
    public Object ensureObjectKey(Object key);
    public Object ensureFilterCompatibleKey(Object key);
    
    /**
     * In some cases you may want to keep simple attribute index along woth specialized.
     * This method 
     * @param key
     * @return
     */
    public Object getRawAttribute(Object key);
    
}