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package org.waveprotocol.box.server.waveserver;

import org.waveprotocol.box.server.persistence.PersistenceException;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Stores wavelet deltas.
 *
 * @author soren@google.com (Soren Lassen)
 */
public interface DeltaStore extends WaveletStore<DeltaStore.DeltasAccess> {

  /**
   * Accesses the delta history for a wavelet.
   * Permits reading historical deltas and appending deltas to the history.
   */
  interface DeltasAccess extends WaveletDeltaRecordReader, Closeable {
    /**
     * Blocking call to append deltas to the end of the delta history.
     * If the call returns normally (doesn't throw an exception), then
     * the deltas have been successfully and "durably" stored, that is,
     * the method forces the data to disk.
     *
     * @param deltas contiguous deltas, beginning from the DeltaAccess object's
     *        end version. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that
     *        everything matches up (applied and transformed deltas in the
     *        records match, that the hashes are correctly computed, etc).
     * @throws PersistenceException if anything goes wrong with the underlying
     *         storage.
     */
    void append(Collection<WaveletDeltaRecord> deltas) throws PersistenceException;
  }
}