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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.db;\r
+\r
+import java.util.Collection;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.db.event.ChangeEvent;\r
+import org.simantics.db.event.ChangeListener;\r
+import org.simantics.db.request.Write;\r
+import org.simantics.db.request.WriteOnly;\r
+import org.simantics.db.service.GraphChangeListenerSupport;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * A representation of a set of changes that have been performed into the graph\r
+ * database using a write request ({@link Write}, {@link WriteOnly}).\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * The change information is allowed to be inexact in the sense that these\r
+ * changes may represent what is attempted to commit into the database but some\r
+ * of the changes may turn out to be null operations in the end: a claimed\r
+ * statement may have already existed or a denied statement may not exist in the\r
+ * first place. Hence, a ChangeSet tells what statement changes have possibly\r
+ * been performed and what resource-bound values have possibly changed.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ * \r
+ * @see GraphChangeListenerSupport\r
+ * @see ChangeListener\r
+ * @see ChangeEvent\r
+ */\r
+public interface ChangeSet {\r
+\r
+ public interface StatementChange extends Statement {\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return <code>true</code> if the statement was claimed,\r
+ * <code>false</code> if denied.\r
+ */\r
+ boolean isClaim();\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * TODO: specify whether the collection is considered a set or a list\r
+ * (duplicate statements allowed or not)\r
+ * \r
+ * The returned collection may be shared internal state of the\r
+ * implementation and must not be modified by the client.\r
+ * \r
+ * @return the set of changed statements, each either claimed or denied\r
+ */\r
+ Collection<StatementChange> changedStatements();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * TODO: specify whether the collection is considered a set or a list\r
+ * (duplicate statements allowed or not)\r
+ * \r
+ * The returned collection may be shared internal state of the\r
+ * implementation and must not be modified by the client.\r
+ * \r
+ * @return the set of changed values, either claimed or denied\r
+ */\r
+ Collection<Resource> changedValues();\r
+ \r
+ Collection<Resource> changedResources();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return <code>true</code> if this change set contains 0 operations,\r
+ * <code>false</code> otherwise\r
+ */\r
+ boolean isEmpty();\r
+\r
+}\r