org.apache.openjpa.slice
Interface DistributionPolicy
- public interface DistributionPolicy 
Policy to select one of the physical databases referred as slice
 in which a given persistent instance will be stored.
- Author:
- Pinaki Poddar
| Method Summary | 
|  java.lang.String | distribute(java.lang.Object pc,
           java.util.List<java.lang.String> slices,
           java.lang.Object context)Gets the name of the slice where a given instance will be stored.
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distribute
java.lang.String distribute(java.lang.Object pc,
                            java.util.List<java.lang.String> slices,
                            java.lang.Object context)
- Gets the name of the slice where a given instance will be stored.
 
- 
- Parameters:
- pc- The newly persistent or to-be-merged object.
- slices- list of names of the active slices. The ordering of 
 the list is either explicit- openjpa.slice.Namesproperty
 or implicit i.e. alphabetic order of available identifiers if- openjpa.slice.Namesis unspecified.
- context- generic persistence context managing the given instance.
- Returns:
- identifier of the slice. This name must match one of the
 given slice names.
- See Also:
- DistributedConfiguration.getActiveSliceNames()
 
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