AbsoluteRecordId.java

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 * Copyright 2013 NGDATA nv
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package org.lilyproject.repository.api;

/**
 * Represents the information to absolutely resolve a record -- both its storage table and its table-unique record id.
 */
public interface AbsoluteRecordId {

    /**
     * Returns the table-unique record id.
     */
    RecordId getRecordId();

    /**
     * Returns the name of the lily table.
     */
    String getTable();

    /**
     * Returns the byte representation of this identifier.
     */
    byte[] toBytes();


}