// kelondroBLOB.java
// (C) 2008 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
// first published 08.06.2008 on http://yacy.net
//
// This is a part of YaCy, a peer-to-peer based web search engine
//
// $LastChangedDate: 2006-04-02 22:40:07 +0200 (So, 02 Apr 2006) $
// $LastChangedRevision: 1986 $
// $LastChangedBy: orbiter $
//
// LICENSE
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package de.anomic.kelondro;

import java.io.IOException;

public interface kelondroBLOB {
    
    /**
     * ask for the length of the primary key
     * @return the length of the key
     */
    public int keylength();
    
    /**
     * clears the content of the database
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void clear() throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * ask for the number of entries
     * @return the number of entries in the table
     */
    public int size();
    
    /**
     * iterator over all keys
     * @param up
     * @param rotating
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public kelondroCloneableIterator<byte[]> keys(boolean up, boolean rotating) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * iterate over all keys
     * @param up
     * @param firstKey
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public kelondroCloneableIterator<byte[]> keys(boolean up, byte[] firstKey) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * check if a specific key is in the database
     * @param key  the primary key
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public boolean has(byte[] key) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * retrieve the whole BLOB from the table
     * @param key  the primary key
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public byte[] get(byte[] key) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * write a whole byte array as BLOB to the table
     * @param key  the primary key
     * @param b
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void put(byte[] key, byte[] b) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * remove a BLOB
     * @param key  the primary key
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void remove(byte[] key) throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * close the BLOB table
     */
    public void close();
    
}