package act.metric;
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import org.osgl.logging.Logger;
/**
* Defines a Metric plugin
*/
public interface MetricPlugin {
/**
* Returns a {@link Metric} instance by name
*
* The plugin shall check if a {@link org.osgl.logging.Logger} get by name `metric.$name`
* is {@link Logger#isTraceEnabled() trace enabled} to return the real Metric instance, otherwise
* then it shall return the {@link Metric#NULL_METRIC the do-nothing metric instance}
*
* @param name the name (could be the name of the metric root hierarchy)
* @return the metric instance corresponding to the name
*/
Metric metric(String name);
/**
* Returns the default {@link Metric} instance
* <p>
* Note the plugin shall always return the same instance with this method call
* </p>
* @return the metric instance
*/
Metric metric();
/**
* Returns a {@link MetricStore} instance.
*
* Note the plugin shall always returns the same instance
*
* @return the metric store instance
*/
MetricStore metricStore();
/**
* Enable/Disable metric data sync to persistent store
* @param sync `true` if enable sync data, `false` otherwise
*/
void enableDataSync(boolean sync);
}