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/*
 * Created on Feb 11, 2008
 */

package com.bigdata.mdi;

import com.bigdata.btree.IRangeQuery;
import com.bigdata.btree.IndexMetadata;
import com.bigdata.mdi.MetadataIndex.MetadataIndexMetadata;
import com.bigdata.service.IDataService;

/**
 * Interface for a metadata index. The metadata index stores the
 * {@link PartitionLocator}s that specify which {@link IDataService} has data
 * for each index partition in a scale-out index.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:thompsonbry@users.sourceforge.net">Bryan Thompson</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface IMetadataIndex extends IRangeQuery { //extends IIndex {

    /**
     * The metadata for the metadata index itself. Note that the
     * {@link MetadataIndexMetadata#getManagedIndexMetadata()} returns the
     * template {@link IndexMetadata} for the scale-out index partitions.
     * 
     * @see #getScaleOutIndexMetadata()
     */
    public MetadataIndexMetadata getIndexMetadata();
    
    /**
     * The metadata template for the scale-out index managed by this metadata
     * index.
     */
    public IndexMetadata getScaleOutIndexMetadata();
    
    /**
     * The partition with that separator key or <code>null</code> (exact match
     * on the separator key).
     * 
     * @param key
     *            The separator key (the first key that would go into that
     *            partition).
     * 
     * @return The partition with that separator key or <code>null</code>.
     */
    public PartitionLocator get(byte[] key);

    /**
     * Find and return the partition spanning the given key.
     * 
     * @param key
     *            A key (optional). When <code>null</code> the locator for the
     *            last index partition will be returned.
     * 
     * @return The partition spanning the given key or <code>null</code> if
     *         there are no partitions defined.
     */
    public PartitionLocator find(byte[] key);

    /**
     * Notification that a locator is stale. Caching implementations of this
     * interface will use this notice to update their state from the
     * authoritative metadata index. Non-caching and authoritative
     * implementations just ignore this message.
     * 
     * @param locator
     *            The locator.
     */
    public void staleLocator(PartitionLocator locator);
    
}