uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.util.persist
Interface DuplicatePersistentHandler

All Superinterfaces:

PersistentHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

PersistentDB

public interface DuplicatePersistentHandler
extends PersistentHandler

DuplicatePersistentHandler.java Used by user application code to call appropriate persistent handler object

Author:

Duc M Le dmle@doc.ic.ac.uk Created on 03 August 2006 Department of Computing, Imperial College

Method Summary

java.lang.Object[]	getDuplicates(PersistentKey pkey) Use the database cursor to obtain all values corresponding to a key
void	removeDuplicates(PersistentKey pkey) Remove all entries associated to a key from the database

Methods inherited from interface uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.util.persist.PersistentHandler

close, get, iterator, put, remove, removeAll

Method Detail

getDuplicates

java.lang.Object[] getDuplicates(PersistentKey pkey)

Use the database cursor to obtain all values corresponding to a key

Parameters:

key - the key object

Returns:

Object[]

removeDuplicates

void removeDuplicates(PersistentKey pkey)

Remove all entries associated to a key from the database