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package org.apache.geode.cache.util;



/**
 * GatewayConflictResolver is a Cache-level plugin that is called upon to decide what to do with
 * events that originate in other systems and arrive through the WAN Gateway. A
 * GatewayConflictResolver is invoked if the current value in a cache entry was established by a
 * different distributed system (with a different distributed-system-id) than an event that is
 * attempting to modify the entry. It is not invoked if the event has the same distributed system ID
 * as the event that last changed the entry.
 * 
 * @since GemFire 7.0
 */
public interface GatewayConflictResolver {
  /**
   * This method is invoked when a change is received from another distributed system and the last
   * modification to the affected cache entry did not also come from the same system.
   * <p>
   * The given GatewayConflictHelper can be used to allow the change to be made to the cache,
   * disallow the modification or make a change to the value to be stored in the cache.
   * <p>
   * This method is invoked under synchronization on the cache entry in order to prevent it from
   * concurrent modification
   * </p>
   * <p>
   * For any two events, all GatewayConflictResolvers must make the same decision on the resolution
   * of the conflict in order to maintain consistency. They must do so regardless of the order of
   * the events.
   * </p>
   * 
   * @param event the event that is in conflict with the current cache state
   * @param helper an object to be used in modifying the course of action for this event
   */
  public void onEvent(TimestampedEntryEvent event, GatewayConflictHelper helper);

}