/*
* RHQ Management Platform
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
*
* 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 General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
package org.rhq.helpers.perftest.support;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.dbunit.dataset.stream.IDataSetProducer;
/**
* Implementations of this interface wrap the {@link IDataSetProducer} instances and are able to
* close the system resources when the producer instance is no longer needed.
*
* @author Lukas Krejci
*/
public interface Input {
/**
* The returned producer is assumed to produce a data set that can then be fed into a database.
* (the specification of the producer is left for the subclasses to define).
*
* @return the dbUnit data set producer
* @throws Exception
*/
IDataSetProducer getProducer() throws Exception;
/**
* Closes any system resources that were used by the producer and prepares the input to
* provide a new data set producer with the call to {@link #getProducer()}.
*
* @throws IOException
*/
void close() throws IOException;
}