OnlineRegions.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;

/**
 * Interface to Map of online regions.  In the  Map, the key is the region's
 * encoded name and the value is an {@link HRegion} instance.
 */
interface OnlineRegions {
  /**
   * Add to online regions.
   * @param r
   */
  public void addToOnlineRegions(final HRegion r);

  /**
   * This method removes HRegion corresponding to hri from the Map of onlineRegions.
   *
   * @param encodedRegionName
   * @return True if we removed a region from online list.
   */
  public boolean removeFromOnlineRegions(String encodedRegionName);

  /**
   * Return {@link HRegion} instance.
   * Only works if caller is in same context, in same JVM. HRegion is not
   * serializable.
   * @param encodedRegionName
   * @return HRegion for the passed encoded <code>encodedRegionName</code> or
   * null if named region is not member of the online regions.
   */
  public HRegion getFromOnlineRegions(String encodedRegionName);
}