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 * Copyright 2009 Mustard Grain, Inc.
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package voldemort.cluster.failuredetector;

import voldemort.VoldemortException;
import voldemort.cluster.Node;
import voldemort.store.UnreachableStoreException;

/**
 * A ConnectionVerifier is used to test node connectivity. The act of testing
 * node connectivity is not the same depending on your environment (in the
 * server itself, on a regular client or admin client (and even further it
 * depends on what transport is used for connecting to the server), unit tests,
 * etc.). This helps to extract away the differences.
 * 
 * <p/>
 * 
 * This is used by some FailureDetector implementations to attempt contact with
 * the node before marking said node as available.
 * 
 */

public interface ConnectionVerifier {

    /**
     * Verifies the ability to connect to a Store for this node.
     * 
     * @param node Node to test
     */

    public void verifyConnection(Node node) throws UnreachableStoreException, VoldemortException;

    /**
     * Flushes the cached stores if any
     */
    public void flushCachedStores();

}