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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.store.access.SortController\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
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+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.store.access;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.types.DataValueDescriptor;\r
+\r
+\r
+/**\r
+\r
+ A sort controller is an interface for inserting rows\r
+ into a sort.\r
+ <p>\r
+ A sort is created with the createSort method of\r
+ TransactionController. The rows are read back with\r
+ a scan controller returned from the openSortScan\r
+ method of TranscationController.\r
+\r
+\r
+ @see TransactionController#openSort\r
+ @see ScanController\r
+\r
+**/\r
+\r
+public interface SortController\r
+{\r
+ /**\r
+ Inform SortController that all the rows have\r
+ been inserted into it. \r
+ **/\r
+ void completedInserts();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ Insert a row into the sort.\r
+\r
+ @param row The row to insert into the SortController. The stored\r
+ representations of the row's columns are copied into a new row\r
+ somewhere in the sort.\r
+\r
+ @exception StandardException Standard exception policy.\r
+ **/\r
+ void insert(DataValueDescriptor[] row)\r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Return SortInfo object which contains information about the current\r
+ * state of the sort.\r
+ * <p>\r
+ *\r
+ * @see SortInfo\r
+ *\r
+ * @return The SortInfo object which contains info about current sort.\r
+ *\r
+ * @exception StandardException Standard exception policy.\r
+ **/\r
+ SortInfo getSortInfo()\r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+\r
+}\r