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package org.apache.brooklyn.api.mgmt;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.brooklyn.util.time.Duration;

import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;

/**
 * Marks a place where tasks can be added, e.g. a task which allows children to be added (including after it is activated);
 * if the implementer of this is also a task, then it may be picked up by hierarchical methods (e.g. in DynamicTasks).
 * 
 * @since 0.6.0
 */
@Beta
public interface TaskQueueingContext {

    /** queues the task for submission as part of this queueing context
     * <p>
     * implementations should mark it as queued but not yet submitted.
     * note the task may have already been submitted, and is being queued here for informational purposes,
     * in which case the implementation should not run it. */
    public void queue(Task<?> t);
    
    /** returns a list of queued tasks (immutable copy) */
    public List<Task<?>> getQueue();

    /** Drains the task queue for this context to complete, ie waits for this context to complete (or terminate early)
     * @param optionalTimeout null to run forever
     * @param includePrimaryThread whether the parent (this context) should also be joined on;
     *   should only be true if invoking this from another task, as otherwise it will be waiting for itself!
     * @param throwFirstError whether to throw the first exception encountered
     * <p>
     * Also note that this waits on tasks so that blocking details on the caller are meaningful.
     */
    public void drain(Duration optionalTimeout, boolean includePrimaryThread, boolean throwFirstError);

    /** Returns the task which is this queueing context */
    public Task<?> asTask();

    /** causes subsequent children failures not to fail the parent */
    public void swallowChildrenFailures();
    
}