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 * Copyright 2015, The Querydsl Team (http://www.querydsl.com/team)
 *
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package com.querydsl.collections;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import com.querydsl.core.QueryMetadata;
import com.querydsl.core.types.Expression;

/**
 * {@code QueryEngine} defines an interface for the evaluation of ColQuery queries
 *
 * @author tiwe
 *
 */
public interface QueryEngine {

    /**
     * Evaluate the given query and return the count of matched rows
     *
     * @param metadata query metadata
     * @param iterables source contents
     * @return matching row count
     */
    long count(QueryMetadata metadata, Map<Expression<?>, Iterable<?>> iterables);

    /**
     * Evaluate the given query and return the projection as a list
     *
     * @param metadata query metadata
     * @param iterables source contents
     * @return matching rows
     */
    <T> List<T> list(QueryMetadata metadata, Map<Expression<?>, Iterable<?>> iterables,
            Expression<T> projection);

    /**
     * Evaluate the given query return whether rows where matched
     *
     * @param metadata query metadata
     * @param iterables source contents
     * @return true, if at least one row was matched
     */
    boolean exists(QueryMetadata metadata, Map<Expression<?>, Iterable<?>> iterables);

}