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-package org.apache.qpid.util.concurrent;
-/*
- *
- * 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.
- *
- */
-
-
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
-
-/**
- * BatchSynchQueue is an abstraction of the classic producer/consumer buffer pattern for thread interaction. In this
- * pattern threads can deposit data onto a buffer whilst other threads take data from the buffer and perform usefull
- * work with it. A BatchSynchQueue adds to this the possibility that producers can be blocked until their data is
- * consumed or until a consumer chooses to release the producer some time after consuming the data from the queue.
- *
- * <p>There are a number of possible advantages to using this technique when compared with having the producers
- * processing their own data:
- *
- * <ul>
- * <li>Data may be deposited asynchronously in the buffer allowing the producers to continue running.</li>
- * <li>Data may be deposited synchronously in the buffer so that producers wait until their data has been processed
- * before being allowed to continue.</li>
- * <li>Variable rates of production/consumption can be smoothed over by the buffer as it provides space in memory to
- * hold data between production and consumption.</li>
- * <li>Consumers may be able to batch data as they consume it leading to more efficient consumption over
- * individual data item consumption where latency associated with the consume operation can be ammortized.
- * For example, it may be possibly to ammortize the cost of a disk seek over many producers.</li>
- * <li>Data from seperate threads can be combined together in the buffer, providing a convenient way of spreading work
- * amongst many workers and gathering the results together again.</li>
- * <li>Different types of queue can be used to hold the buffer, resulting in different processing orders. For example,
- * lifo, fifo, priority heap, etc.</li>
- * </ul>
- *
- * <p/>The asynchronous type of producer/consumer buffers is already well supported by the java.util.concurrent package
- * (in Java 5) and there is also a synchronous queue implementation available there too. This interface extends the
- * blocking queue with some more methods for controlling a synchronous blocking queue. In particular it adds additional
- * take methods that can be used to take data from a queue without releasing producers, so that consumers have an
- * opportunity to confirm correct processing of the data before producers are released. It also adds a put method with
- * exceptions so that consumers can signal exception cases back to producers where there are errors in the data.
- *
- * <p/>This type of queue is usefull in situations where consumers can obtain an efficiency gain by batching data
- * from many threads but where synchronous handling of that data is neccessary because producers need to know that
- * their data has been processed before they continue. For example, sending a bundle of messages together, or writing
- * many records to disk at once, may result in improved performance but the originators of the messages or disk records
- * need confirmation that their data has really been sent or saved to disk.
- *
- * <p/>The consumer can put an element back onto the queue or send an error message to the elements producer using the
- * {@link SynchRecord} interface.
- *
- * <p/>The {@link #take()}, {@link #drainTo(java.util.Collection<? super E>)} and
- * {@link #drainTo(java.util.Collection<? super E>, int)} methods from {@link BlockingQueue} should behave as if they
- * have been called with unblock set to false. That is they take elements from the queue but leave the producers
- * blocked. These methods do not return collections of {@link SynchRecord}s so they do not supply an interface through
- * which errors or re-queuings can be applied. If these methods are used then the consumer must succesfully process
- * all the records it takes.
- *
- * <p/>The {@link #put} method should silently swallow any exceptions that consumers attempt to return to the caller.
- * In order to handle exceptions the {@link #tryPut} method must be used.
- *
- * <p/><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
- * <tr><th> Responsibilities <th> Collaborations
- * <tr><td> Handle synchronous puts, with possible exceptions.
- * <tr><td> Allow consumers to take many records from a queue in a batch.
- * <tr><td> Allow consumers to decide when to unblock synchronous producers.
- * </table>
- */
-public interface BatchSynchQueue<E> extends BlockingQueue<E>
-{
- /**
- * Tries a synchronous put into the queue. If a consumer encounters an exception condition whilst processing the
- * data that is put, then this is returned to the caller wrapped inside a {@link SynchException}.
- *
- * @param e The data element to put into the queue.
- *
- * @throws InterruptedException If the thread is interrupted whilst waiting to write to the queue or whilst waiting
- * on its entry in the queue being consumed.
- * @throws SynchException If a consumer encounters an error whilst processing the data element.
- */
- public void tryPut(E e) throws InterruptedException, SynchException;
-
- /**
- * Takes all available data items from the queue or blocks until some become available. The returned items
- * are wrapped in a {@link SynchRecord} which provides an interface to requeue them or send errors to their
- * producers, where the producers are still blocked.
- *
- * @param c The collection to drain the data items into.
- * @param unblock If set to <tt>true</tt> the producers for the taken items will be immediately unblocked.
- *
- * @return A count of the number of elements that were drained from the queue.
- */
- public SynchRef drainTo(Collection<SynchRecord<E>> c, boolean unblock);
-
- /**
- * Takes up to maxElements available data items from the queue or blocks until some become available. The returned
- * items are wrapped in a {@link SynchRecord} which provides an interface to requeue them or send errors to their
- * producers, where the producers are still blocked.
- *
- * @param c The collection to drain the data items into.
- * @param maxElements The maximum number of elements to drain.
- * @param unblock If set to <tt>true</tt> the producers for the taken items will be immediately unblocked.
- *
- * @return A count of the number of elements that were drained from the queue.
- */
- public SynchRef drainTo(Collection<SynchRecord<E>> c, int maxElements, boolean unblock);
-}