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BackingStore.java

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package com.sun.appserv.ha.spi;

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * An object that stores a given Metadata against an id. This class defines the
 * set of operations that a container could perform on a store.
 * 
 * <p>
 * An instance of BackingStore is created by calling
 * <code>BackingStoreFactory.createSimpleStore()</code> method.
 * 
 * <p>
 * The BackingStore instance is created and used for storing data that belongs
 * to a single application or container.
 * 
 * <p>
 * The store implementation must be thread safe.
 */
public abstract class BackingStore<K extends Metadata> {

    private String appId;

    private Properties props;

    protected Properties getProperties() {
        return props;
    }

    protected String getAppId() {
        return this.appId;
    }

    protected void initialize(String appId, Properties props) {
        this.appId = appId;
        this.props = props;
    }

    /**
     * Load and return the daata for the given id. The store is expected to
     * return the largest ever version that was saved in the stored using the
     * <code>save()</code> method. Note that the return value could be null if
     * Metadata was not accessed for {@link Metadata#getMaxInactiveInterval()}
     * 
     * @param id
     *            the id whose value must be returned
     * @return the value if this store contains it or null. The implementation
     *         must return the exact same type as that was passed to it in the
     *         save method.
     * 
     * @throws NullPointerException
     *             if the id is null
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract K load(String id) throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Save the value whose key is id.
     * 
     * @param id
     *            the id
     * @param value
     *            The Metadata to be stored
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract void save(String id, K value) throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Update the last access time for this id.
     * 
     * @param id
     *            the id for the Metadata
     * @param time
     *            the time at which this data was last accessed
     * @param version
     *            the new version number for the data associated with this id. A
     *            newly created version will have version number zero.
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract void updateLastAccessTime(String id, long time, long version)
            throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Remove the association for the id. After this call, any call to
     * <code>load(id)</code> <b>must</b> return null
     * 
     * @param id
     *            the id
     * @return true if the id was successfully removed false otherwise
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract void remove(String id) throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Remove all instances that are idle. The implementation of this method
     * must use {@link Metadata#getLastAccessTime()} and
     * {@link Metadata#getMaxInactiveInterval()} to determine if a particular
     * Metadata is idle or not. A Metadata is considered idle if <code>
     * (Metadata.getMaxInactiveInterval > 0)
     * && ((System.currentTimeMillis() - Metadata.getLastAccessTime()) >=
     * Metadata.getMaxInactiveInterval())</code>
     * 
     * @return The number of (idle) sessions removed.
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract int removeExpired() throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Get the current size of the store
     * 
     * @return the number of entries in the store
     * @throws BackingStoreException
     *             if the underlying store implementation encounters any
     *             exception
     */
    public abstract int size() throws BackingStoreException;

    /**
     * Called when the store is no longer needed. Must clean up and close any
     * opened resources.
     */
    public abstract void destroy() throws BackingStoreException;

}