/*
 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 

  The MySQL Connector/J is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2
  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>, like most MySQL Connectors.
  There are special exceptions to the terms and conditions of the GPLv2 as it is applied to
  this software, see the FLOSS License Exception
  <http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html>.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
  of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
  of the License.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
  without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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  program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth
  Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301  USA



 */
package com.mysql.jdbc;

import java.sql.Blob;
import java.sql.Clob;
import java.sql.SQLClientInfoException;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.SQLXML;
import java.sql.NClob;
import java.sql.Struct;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.TimerTask;


import com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl;
import com.mysql.jdbc.Messages;
import com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError;


public interface JDBC4MySQLConnection extends MySQLConnection {
	
	public SQLXML createSQLXML() throws SQLException;
	
	public java.sql.Array createArrayOf(String typeName, Object[] elements) throws SQLException;

	public Struct createStruct(String typeName, Object[] attributes) throws SQLException;

	public Properties getClientInfo() throws SQLException;

	public String getClientInfo(String name) throws SQLException;
	
	public boolean isValid(int timeout) throws SQLException;
	
	public void setClientInfo(Properties properties) throws SQLClientInfoException;

	public void setClientInfo(String name, String value) throws SQLClientInfoException;

	public boolean isWrapperFor(Class<?> iface) throws SQLException;
	
    public <T> T unwrap(java.lang.Class<T> iface) throws java.sql.SQLException;
    
	public Blob createBlob();
	
	public Clob createClob();
	
	public NClob createNClob();
	
	
}