/** * Copyright (C) 2004 Orbeon, Inc. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the * GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version * 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. * * The full text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html */ package org.orbeon.oxf.util.task; /** * This interface is used by the TaskScheduler if we want to implement * a strategy for persisting and reading task information. * <p> * @author Efraim Berkovich * @version 1.0 */ public interface TaskPersistStrategy { /** * Write an individual task to storage. * @exception Various possible depending on strategy e.g. IOException */ public void write(Task task) throws Exception; /** * Delete an individual task from storage. */ public void delete(Task task); /** * Delete all tasks in storage. */ public void deleteAll(); /** * Read all the tasks in storage * @return array of Tasks * @exception Various possible depending on strategy e.g. IOException */ public Task[] readAll() throws Exception; }