alfresco-community-repo/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/batch/BatchProcessWorkProvider.java
Derek Hulley db40093488 BatchProcessor is fed work by a BatchProcessWorkProvider
- Avoids necessity to supply full or clever Collection


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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.batch;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* An interface that provides work loads to the {@link BatchProcessor}.
*
* @author Derek Hulley
* @since 3.4
*/
public interface BatchProcessWorkProvider<T>
{
/**
* Get an estimate of the total number of objects that will be provided by this instance.
* Instances can provide accurate answers on each call, but only if the answer can be
* provided quickly and efficiently; usually it is enough to to cache the result after
* providing an initial estimate.
*
* @return a total work size estimate
*/
int getTotalEstimatedWorkSize();
/**
* Get the next lot of work for the batch processor. Implementations should return
* the largest number of entries possible; the {@link BatchProcessor} will keep calling
* this method until it has enough work for the individual worker threads to process
* or until the work load is empty.
*
* @return the next set of work object to process or an empty collection
* if there is no more work remaining.
*/
Collection<T> getNextWork();
}