/*

 *   SONEWS News Server

 *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors

 *

 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

 *   (at your option) any later version.

 *

 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 *   GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

 */

package org.sonews.storage;

import java.util.List;

import org.sonews.feed.Subscription;

import org.sonews.util.Pair;

/**

 * A generic storage backend interface.

 * @author Christian Lins

 * @since sonews/1.0

 */

public interface Storage

{

  /**

   * Stores the given Article in the storage.

   * @param art

   * @throws StorageBackendException

   */

  void addArticle(Article art)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  void addEvent(long timestamp, int type, long groupID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  void addGroup(String groupname, int flags)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int countArticles()

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int countGroups()

    throws StorageBackendException;

  void delete(String messageID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  Article getArticle(String messageID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  Article getArticle(long articleIndex, long groupID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  List<Pair<Long, ArticleHead>> getArticleHeads(Group group, long first, long last)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  List<Pair<Long, String>> getArticleHeaders(Channel channel, long start, long end,

    String header, String pattern)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  long getArticleIndex(Article art, Group group)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  List<Long> getArticleNumbers(long groupID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  String getConfigValue(String key)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int getEventsCount(int eventType, long startTimestamp, long endTimestamp,

    Channel channel)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  double getEventsPerHour(int key, long gid)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int getFirstArticleNumber(Group group)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  Group getGroup(String name)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  List<Channel> getGroups()

    throws StorageBackendException;

  /**

   * Retrieves the collection of groupnames that are associated with the

   * given list address.

   * @param inetaddress

   * @return

   * @throws StorageBackendException

   */

  List<String> getGroupsForList(String listAddress)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int getLastArticleNumber(Group group)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  /**

   * Returns a list of email addresses that are related to the given

   * groupname. In most cases the list may contain only one entry.

   * @param groupname

   * @return

   * @throws StorageBackendException

   */

  List<String> getListsForGroup(String groupname)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  String getOldestArticle()

    throws StorageBackendException;

  int getPostingsCount(String groupname)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  List<Subscription> getSubscriptions(int type)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  boolean isArticleExisting(String messageID)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  boolean isGroupExisting(String groupname)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  void purgeGroup(Group group)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  void setConfigValue(String key, String value)

    throws StorageBackendException;

  boolean update(Group group)

    throws StorageBackendException;

}