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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef _TxBuffer_
+#define _TxBuffer_
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <functional>
+#include <vector>
+#include <TransactionalStore.h>
+#include <TxOp.h>
+
+/**
+ * Represents a single transaction. As such, an instance of this class
+ * will hold a list of operations representing the workload of the
+ * transaction. This work can be committed or rolled back. Committing
+ * is a two-stage process: first all the operations should be
+ * prepared, then if that succeeds they can be committed.
+ *
+ * In the 2pc case, a successful prepare may be followed by either a
+ * commit or a rollback.
+ *
+ * Atomicity of prepare is ensured by using a lower level
+ * transactional facility. This saves explicitly rolling back all the
+ * successfully prepared ops when one of them fails. i.e. we do not
+ * use 2pc internally, we instead ensure that prepare is atomic at a
+ * lower level. This makes individual prepare operations easier to
+ * code.
+ *
+ * Transactions on a messaging broker effect three types of 'action':
+ * (1) updates to persistent storage (2) updates to transient storage
+ * or cached data (3) network writes.
+ *
+ * Of these, (1) should always occur atomically during prepare to
+ * ensure that if the broker crashes while a transaction is being
+ * completed the persistent state (which is all that then remains) is
+ * consistent. (3) can only be done on commit, after a successful
+ * prepare. There is a little more flexibility with (2) but any
+ * changes made during prepare should be subject to the control of the
+ * TransactionalStore in use.
+ */
+namespace qpid {
+ namespace broker {
+ class TxBuffer{
+ typedef std::vector<TxOp*>::iterator op_iterator;
+ std::vector<TxOp*> ops;
+ public:
+ /**
+ * Requests that all ops are prepared. This should
+ * primarily involve making sure that a persistent record
+ * of the operations is stored where necessary.
+ *
+ * All ops will be prepared under a transaction on the
+ * specified store. If any operation fails on prepare,
+ * this transaction will be rolled back.
+ *
+ * Once prepared, a transaction can be committed (or in
+ * the 2pc case, rolled back).
+ *
+ * @returns true if all the operations prepared
+ * successfully, false if not.
+ */
+ bool prepare(TransactionalStore* const store);
+ /**
+ * Signals that the ops all prepared all completed
+ * successfully and can now commit, i.e. the operation can
+ * now be fully carried out.
+ *
+ * Should only be called after a call to prepare() returns
+ * true.
+ */
+ void commit();
+ /**
+ * Rolls back all the operations.
+ *
+ * Should only be called either after a call to prepare()
+ * returns true (2pc) or instead of a prepare call
+ * ('server-local')
+ */
+ void rollback();
+ /**
+ * Adds an operation to the transaction.
+ */
+ void enlist(TxOp* const op);
+ };
+ }
+}
+
+
+#endif