cassandra-trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/SSTableMultiWriter.java
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package org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIterator;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableReader;
import org.apache.cassandra.schema.TableId;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.Throwables;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional;

public interface SSTableMultiWriter extends Transactional
{

    /**
     * Writes a partition in an implementation specific way
     * @param partition the partition to append
     * @return true if the partition was written, false otherwise
     */
    boolean append(UnfilteredRowIterator partition);

    Collection<SSTableReader> finish(long repairedAt, long maxDataAge, boolean openResult);
    Collection<SSTableReader> finish(boolean openResult);
    Collection<SSTableReader> finished();

    SSTableMultiWriter setOpenResult(boolean openResult);

    String getFilename();
    long getFilePointer();
    TableId getTableId();

    static void abortOrDie(SSTableMultiWriter writer)
    {
        Throwables.maybeFail(writer.abort(null));
    }
}
