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#ifndef _broker_MessageDistributor_h
#define _broker_MessageDistributor_h

/*
 *
 * 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
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 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
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 *
 */
#include "qpid/types/Variant.h"
/** Abstraction used by Queue to determine the next "most desirable" message to provide to
 * a particular consuming client
 */

namespace qpid {
namespace broker {

class Message;

class MessageDistributor
{
 public:
    virtual ~MessageDistributor() {};

    /**
     * Determine whether the named consumer can take ownership of the specified message.
     * @param consumer the name of the consumer that is attempting to acquire the message
     * @param target the message to be acquired
     * @return true if ownership is permitted, false if ownership cannot be assigned.
     */
    virtual bool acquire(const std::string& consumer, Message& target) = 0;

    /** hook to add any interesting management state to the status map */
    virtual void query(qpid::types::Variant::Map&) const = 0;
};

}}

#endif