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authorBrian S. O'Neill <bronee@gmail.com>2010-08-03 01:18:59 +0000
committerBrian S. O'Neill <bronee@gmail.com>2010-08-03 01:18:59 +0000
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parent6c764e0d6026dac1b2a1fe0ec088535ac7cc3c7f (diff)
Add support for remote procedure calls.
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2010 Amazon Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates.
+ * Amazon, Amazon.com and Carbonado are trademarks or registered trademarks
+ * of Amazon Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.amazon.carbonado.capability;
+
+import com.amazon.carbonado.RepositoryException;
+
+/**
+ * Capability which allows arbitrary code to run on a remote host and access
+ * its repository. The remote procedure might have security restrictions
+ * applied to it.
+ *
+ * <p>Examples:<pre>
+ * RemoteProcedureCapability cap = ...
+ * Cursor&lt;MyRecord&gt; c1 = cap.beginCall(new CustomQuery&lt;MyRecord&gt;(params)).fetchReply();
+ * ...
+ *
+ * Cursor&lt;InputRecord&gt; c2 = ...
+ * cap.beginCall(new Importer&lt;InputRecord&gt;()).sendAll(c2).finish();
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @author Brian S O'Neill
+ * @see RemoteProcedure
+ */
+public interface RemoteProcedureCapability extends Capability {
+ /**
+ * Begins a call to execute the given procedure on a remote host.
+ * Execution commences when the Call object is instructed to do so.
+ *
+ * @param <R> reply object type
+ * @param <D> request data object type
+ * @param proc procedure to execute
+ * @return object for defining the call and receiving a reply
+ */
+ <R, D> RemoteProcedure.Call<R, D> beginCall(RemoteProcedure<R, D> proc)
+ throws RepositoryException;
+}