001/*
002 * HA-JDBC: High-Availability JDBC
003 * Copyright (C) 2012  Paul Ferraro
004 *
005 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
006 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
007 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
008 * (at your option) any later version.
009 *
010 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
011 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
012 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
013 * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
014 *
015 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
016 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
017 */
018package net.sf.hajdbc.cache;
019
020import java.sql.Connection;
021import java.sql.SQLException;
022
023import net.sf.hajdbc.Database;
024import net.sf.hajdbc.DatabaseProperties;
025
026
027/**
028 * Interface for retrieving pre-processed, cached, database meta data.
029 * 
030 * @author Paul Ferraro
031 * @since 2.0
032 */
033public interface DatabaseMetaDataCache<Z, D extends Database<Z>>
034{
035        /**
036         * Flushes this cache.
037         * @throws SQLException if flush fails
038         */
039        void flush() throws SQLException;
040        
041        DatabaseProperties getDatabaseProperties(D database, Connection connection) throws SQLException;
042}