/**
* 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.service;
import org.cloudgraph.state.StateMarshalingContext;
/**
* Holds temporary state information for use within services held for the
* duration of a service call. For most implementations the <{@link close} method
* must be called within the finally block of the service method to free associated
* resources.
*
* @author Scott Cinnamond
* @since 0.6.3
*/
public interface ServiceContext {
/**
* Returns the state marshalling context associated with the context.
* @return the state marshalling context associated with the context.
*/
public StateMarshalingContext getMarshallingContext();
/**
* Frees any resources associated with this context.
*/
public void close();
}