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package org.apache.jena.tdb.transaction;

/** Interface that components of the transaction system implement.  
 * This is not the public/application interface to transactions.
 */ 
public interface TransactionLifecycle
{
    // begin - commitPrepare - commitEnact - clearup
    // begin - abort - clearup
    // May be reused via a new call to begin - see impl for if that's possible. 
    
    /** Start an update transaction */  
    public void begin(Transaction txn) ;
    
    /** End of active phase - will not be making these changes*/
    public void abort(Transaction txn) ;
    
    /** End of active phase. Make changes safe; do not update the base data. */
    public void commitPrepare(Transaction txn) ;

    /** Update the base data */ 
    public void commitEnact(Transaction txn) ;
    
    /** All done - transaction committed and incorporated in the base dataset - can now tidy up */
    public void commitClearup(Transaction txn) ;
}
