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alfresco-community-repo/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/webservice/QuerySession.java
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.alfresco.repo.webservice;
import java.io.Serializable;
import org.alfresco.service.ServiceRegistry;
/**
* An interface for objects that track the query and its results. The only commonality between
* the different types of results used in the WebServices return values is that they are
* Serializable.
*
* @author Derek Hulley
*/
public interface QuerySession<RESULTSET> extends Serializable
{
/**
* Retrieves the id this query session can be identified as
*
* @return Id of this query session
*/
public String getId();
/**
* Check if the session is expecting more results. This will be <tt>false</tt> if the
* cursor previously passed the end of a given set of results.
*/
public boolean haveMoreResults();
/**
* Get the next batch of results from the full set of available results. If there are no results
* available, then this session must go and fetch them. It is up to the implementation to provide
* a means for this to occur.
*
* @param serviceRegistry
* the services to perform a query
* @param allResults
* All available results. It may be necessary to requery to get the results.
* @return
* Returns the next batch of results based on the maximum fetch size. If there are no
* more results, the resultset will be empty.
*/
public RESULTSET getNextResults(ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry);
}