/*
* Copyright (C) 2012, 2016 higherfrequencytrading.com
* Copyright (C) 2016 Roman Leventov
*
* 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 3 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package net.openhft.chronicle.map;
import net.openhft.chronicle.bytes.BytesStore;
import net.openhft.chronicle.hash.ChronicleHash;
import net.openhft.chronicle.hash.HashContext;
import net.openhft.chronicle.hash.Data;
/**
* Context, in which {@link MapEntry MapEntries} are accessed. {@code MapContext} allows to access
* {@link MapEntryOperations}, configured for the accessed {@link ChronicleMap} via {@link
* ChronicleMapBuilder#entryOperations(MapEntryOperations)}. {@code MapContext} implements {@code
* MapEntryOperations} by delegation to the configured {@code entryOperations}. The same for
* {@link DefaultValueProvider}: {@code MapContext} delegates to the {@code DefaultValueProvider}
* configured for the accessed {@code ChronicleMap} via {@link
* ChronicleMapBuilder#defaultValueProvider(DefaultValueProvider)}, or the default {@code
* DefaultValueProvider} implementation.
*
* @param <K> the map key type
* @param <V> the map value type
* @param <R> the return type of {@link MapEntryOperations} specified for the queried map
*/
public interface MapContext<K, V, R>
extends HashContext<K>, MapEntryOperations<K, V, R>, DefaultValueProvider<K, V> {
/**
* Returns the accessed {@code ChronicleMap}. Synonym to {@link #map()}.
*/
@Override
ChronicleHash<K, ?, ?, ?> hash();
/**
* Returns the accessed {@code ChronicleMap}. Synonym to {@link #hash()}.
*/
ChronicleMap<K, V> map();
/**
* Wraps the given value as a {@code Data}. Useful when you need to pass a value
* to some method accepting {@code Data}, for example, {@link MapEntryOperations#replaceValue(
* MapEntry, Data)}, without allocating new objects (i. e. garbage) and {@code ThreadLocals}.
*
* <p>The returned {@code Data} object shouldn't outlive this {@code MapContext}.
*
* @param value the value object to wrap
* @return the value as {@code Data}
*/
Data<V> wrapValueAsData(V value);
/**
* Wraps the given value bytes as a {@code Data}. Useful when you need to pass a value
* to some method accepting {@code Data}, for example, {@link MapEntryOperations#replaceValue(
* MapEntry, Data)}, without allocating manual deserialization and {@code ThreadLocals}.
*
* <p>The returned {@code Data} object shouldn't outlive this {@code MapContext}.
*
* @param valueBytes the value bytes to wrap
* @param offset offset within the given valueBytes, the actual value bytes start from
* @param size length of the value bytes sequence
* @return the value bytes as {@code Data}
*/
Data<V> wrapValueBytesAsData(BytesStore valueBytes, long offset, long size);
}