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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.transaction.TransactionListener\r
+\r
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.transaction;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An interface that must be implemented by a object that\r
+ * wants to be notified when a significant transaction event occurs.\r
+ */\r
+public interface TransactionListener {\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Notifies registered listener that the transaction\r
+ * is about to commit. Called before the commit is\r
+ * recorded and flushed to the transaction log device.\r
+ * \r
+ * @return true to remove this listener once this\r
+ * method returns.\r
+ * \r
+ * @throws StandardException If thrown the commit attempt\r
+ * will be stopped and instead the transaction will be rolled back.\r
+ */\r
+ boolean preCommit() throws StandardException;\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Notifies registered listener that the transaction\r
+ * is about to rollback. Called before any physical rollback.\r
+ * The listener will be removed from the current transaction\r
+ * once the method returns.\r
+ * \r
+ * @throws StandardException If thrown the rollback attempt\r
+ * will be stopped and instead the database will be shut down.\r
+ * \r
+ * TODO: Define behaviour on exception during rollback.\r
+ */\r
+ void preRollback() throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+ // to support statement/savepoint rollback.\r
+ // void preSavepointRollback() throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+}\r