HumanTaskDAOConnectionFactory.java

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package org.wso2.carbon.humantask.core.dao;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

/**
 * Human task DAO Connection Factory Interface. This would be used to obtain HumanTaskDAOConnection to query the Database.
 */
public interface HumanTaskDAOConnectionFactory {

    /**
     *
     * @return HumanTaskDAOConnection : The dao connection which acts as the interface to the human task database.
     */
    HumanTaskDAOConnection getConnection();

    /**
     * Initialization logic.
     */
    void init();

    /**
     *
     * @return : The DataSource
     */
    DataSource getDataSource();

    /**
     * Shutdown logic.
     */
    void shutdown();
}