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package org.apache.zookeeper.client;

import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

/**
 * A set of hosts a ZooKeeper client should connect to.
 * 
 * Classes implementing this interface must guarantee the following:
 * 
 * * Every call to next() returns an InetSocketAddress. So the iterator never
 * ends.
 * 
 * * The size() of a HostProvider may never be zero.
 * 
 * A HostProvider must return resolved InetSocketAddress instances on next(),
 * but it's up to the HostProvider, when it wants to do the resolving.
 * 
 * Different HostProvider could be imagined:
 * 
 * * A HostProvider that loads the list of Hosts from an URL or from DNS 
 * * A HostProvider that re-resolves the InetSocketAddress after a timeout. 
 * * A HostProvider that prefers nearby hosts.
 */
public interface HostProvider {
    public int size();

    /**
     * The next host to try to connect to.
     * 
     * For a spinDelay of 0 there should be no wait.
     * 
     * @param spinDelay
     *            Milliseconds to wait if all hosts have been tried once.
     */
    public InetSocketAddress next(long spinDelay);

    /**
     * Notify the HostProvider of a successful connection.
     * 
     * The HostProvider may use this notification to reset it's inner state.
     */
    public void onConnected();
}