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authorPeter Hallam <peterhal@google.com>2010-04-26 12:53:37 -0700
committerPeter Hallam <peterhal@google.com>2010-04-27 16:26:27 -0700
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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 javax.sql;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+/**
+ * An interface which provides functionality for a disconnected {@code RowSet}
+ * to put data updates back to the data source from which the {@code RowSet} was
+ * originally populated. An object implementing this interface is called a
+ * writer.
+ * <p>
+ * The writer must establish a connection to the {@code RowSet}'s database
+ * before writing the data. The {@code RowSet} calling this interface must
+ * implement the {@code RowSetInternal} interface.
+ * <p>
+ * The writer may encounter a situation where the updated data needs to be
+ * written back to the database, but has already been updated there in the mean
+ * time. How a conflict of this kind is handled is determined by the
+ * implementation of this writer.
+ *
+ * @see RowSetInternal
+ */
+public interface RowSetWriter {
+
+ /**
+ * Writes changes made in the {@code RowSet}, which is associated with this
+ * {@code RowSetWriter}, back to the database.
+ *
+ * @param theRowSet
+ * a row set that fulfills the following criteria:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>it must implement the {@code RowSetInternal} interface,</li>
+ * <li>have this {@code RowSetWriter} registered with it,</li>
+ * <li>must call this method internally.</li>
+ * </ul>
+ * @return {@code true} if the modified data was written, {@code false}
+ * otherwise (which typically implies some form of conflict).
+ * @throws SQLException
+ * if a problem occurs accessing the database.
+ */
+ public boolean writeData(RowSetInternal theRowSet) throws SQLException;
+}