LockingStrategy.java

/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
 * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
 */
package org.hibernate.dialect.lock;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.hibernate.StaleObjectStateException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SharedSessionContractImplementor;

/**
 * A strategy abstraction for how locks are obtained in the underlying database.
 * <p/>
 * All locking provided implementations assume the underlying database supports
 * (and that the connection is in) at least read-committed transaction isolation.
 * The most glaring exclusion to this is HSQLDB which only offers support for
 * READ_UNCOMMITTED isolation.
 *
 * @see org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect#getLockingStrategy
 * @since 3.2
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface LockingStrategy {
	/**
	 * Acquire an appropriate type of lock on the underlying data that will
	 * endure until the end of the current transaction.
	 *
	 * @param id The id of the row to be locked
	 * @param version The current version (or null if not versioned)
	 * @param object The object logically being locked (currently not used)
	 * @param timeout timeout in milliseconds, 0 = no wait, -1 = wait indefinitely
	 * @param session The session from which the lock request originated
	 *
	 * @throws StaleObjectStateException Indicates an inability to locate the database row as part of acquiring
	 * the requested lock.
	 * @throws LockingStrategyException Indicates a failure in the lock attempt
	 */
	void lock(Serializable id, Object version, Object object, int timeout, SharedSessionContractImplementor session)
			throws StaleObjectStateException, LockingStrategyException;
}