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package galileo.fs;

import java.io.IOException;

import galileo.dataset.Block;
import galileo.dataset.Metadata;
import galileo.serialization.SerializationException;

/**
 * Defines the interface for "physical graphs" --- on-disk storage hierarchies.
 *
 * @author malensek
 */
public interface PhysicalGraph {

    /**
     * Retrieves a {@link Block} instance, given its path on disk.
     *
     * @param blockPath the physical (on-disk) location of the Block to load.
     *
     * @return Block stored at blockPath.
     */
    public Block loadBlock(String blockPath)
        throws IOException, SerializationException;

    /**
     * Retrieves a {@link Metadata} instance, given a {@link Block} path on
     * disk.
     *
     * @param blockPath the physical location of the Block to load metadata
     * from.
     *
     * @return Metadata stored in the Block specified by blockPath.
     */
    public Metadata loadMetadata(String blockPath)
        throws IOException, SerializationException;

    /**
     * Stores a {@link Block} on disk.  The location of the Block will be
     * determined by the particular FileSystem implementation being used rather
     * than as a method parameter, so only the Block itself is provided.
     *
     * @param block the Block instance to persist to disk.
     *
     * @return String representation of the Block path on disk.
     */
    public String storeBlock(Block block)
        throws FileSystemException, IOException;

    /**
     * Inserts Metadata into the file system.  In many cases, Metadata is not
     * stored individually on disk but placed in an index instead.  This method
     * is useful during a full recovery operation for re-linking indexed
     * Metadata with its associated files on disk, or could be used in
     * situations where information should only be indexed and not stored.  This
     * functionality is also used when Metadata is stored as a separate file on
     * disk.
     *
     * @param metadata the {@link Metadata} to 'store,' which may just involve
     * updating index structures.
     * @param blockPath the on-disk path of the Block the Metadata being stored
     * belongs to.
     */
    public void storeMetadata(Metadata metadata, String blockPath)
        throws FileSystemException, IOException;
}

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