net.spy.db
Interface SavableNode

All Superinterfaces:

Savable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSavable, SavableHashMap, SavableHashSet

public interface SavableNode

extends Savable

Interface for transactionally savable trees of objects. This interface supersedes Savable.

Method Summary

Collection	getPostSavables(SaveContext context) Get a Collection of all of the SavableNodes this SavableNode is holding that will need to be saved after this Savable.
Collection	getPreSavables(SaveContext context) Get a Collection of all of the SavableNodes this SavableNode is holding that will need to be saved before this Savable.
Collection	getSavables(SaveContext context) This method is deprecated and should return the same value as getPostSavables.

Methods inherited from interface net.spy.db.Savable

isModified, isNew, save

Method Detail

getPreSavables

public Collection getPreSavables(SaveContext context)

Get a Collection of all of the SavableNodes this SavableNode is holding that will need to be saved before this Savable.

Parameters:

context - SaveContext being used in this Saver session

Returns:

a collection of objects this SavableNode depends on

getPostSavables

public Collection getPostSavables(SaveContext context)

Get a Collection of all of the SavableNodes this SavableNode is holding that will need to be saved after this Savable.

Parameters:

context - SaveContext being used in this Saver session

Returns:

a collection of objects this SavableNode depends on

getSavables

public Collection getSavables(SaveContext context)

This method is deprecated and should return the same value as getPostSavables.

Specified by:

getSavables in interface Savable

Parameters:

context - SaveContext being used in this Saver session

Returns:

a collection of dependent objects to save, or null if there are no dependent objects