/**
 *        CloudGraph Community Edition (CE) License
 * 
 * This is a community release of CloudGraph, a dual-license suite of
 * Service Data Object (SDO) 2.1 services designed for relational and 
 * big-table style "cloud" databases, such as HBase and others. 
 * This particular copy of the software is released under the 
 * version 2 of the GNU General Public License. CloudGraph was developed by 
 * TerraMeta Software, Inc.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2013, TerraMeta Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * 
 * General License information can be found below.
 * 
 * This distribution may include materials developed by third
 * parties. For license and attribution notices for these
 * materials, please refer to the documentation that accompanies
 * this distribution (see the "Licenses for Third-Party Components"
 * appendix) or view the online documentation at 
 * <http://cloudgraph.org/licenses/>. 
 */
package org.cloudgraph.hbase.key;

import org.cloudgraph.config.DataGraphConfig;
import org.cloudgraph.config.TableConfig;
import org.plasma.sdo.PlasmaType;

/**
 * A key factory which helps implementations leverage 
 * table and data graph specific configuration information,
 * such as the hashing algorithm and field level row and column
 * model settings. 
 * <p>
 * The initial creation and subsequent reconstitution for query retrieval
 * purposes of both row and column keys in CloudGraph™ is efficient, 
 * as it leverages byte array level API in both Java and the current 
 * underlying SDO 2.1 implementation, <a target="#" href="http://plasma-sdo.org">PlasmaSDO™</a>. Both composite row and 
 * column keys are composed in part of structural metadata, and the 
 * lightweight metadata API within <a target="#" href="http://plasma-sdo.org">PlasmaSDO™</a> contains byte-array level, 
 * cached lookup of all basic metadata elements including logical and 
 * physical type and property names.  
 * </p>
 * @see org.cloudgraph.config.CloudGraphConfig
 * @see org.cloudgraph.config.TableConfig
 * @see org.cloudgraph.config.DataGraphConfig
 * @author Scott Cinnamond
 * @since 0.5
 */
public interface ConfigurableKeyFactory {
	public TableConfig getTable();
	public DataGraphConfig getGraph();
	public PlasmaType getRootType();
}