/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2014 BestSolution.at and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@bestsolution.at> - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package at.bestsolution.persistence;
import java.sql.Blob;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
public interface SessionFactory {
public String getFactoryId();
public Session createSession();
public Session createSession(String configurationId);
public Future<Session> createFutureSession(Class<ObjectMapper<?>>... dependentMappers);
// public Future<Session> createFutureSession(String configuration, Class<ObjectMapper<?>>... mappers);
public <M extends ObjectMapper<?>> boolean isMapperAvailable(Class<M> mapper);
public <T> boolean isMapperAvailableForType(Class<T> mapper);
public Blob createBlob();
public <R> R runWithSession(SessionRunnable<R> runnable);
public Registration registerPersistParticipant(PersistParticipant participant);
}