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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.grammars;

/**
 * <p> This interface specifies how the parser and the application
 * interact with respect to Grammar objects that the application
 * possesses--either by having precompiled them or by having stored them
 * from a previous validation of an instance document.  It makes no
 * assumptions about the kind of Grammar involved, or about how the
 * application's storage mechanism works.</p>
 *
 * <p>The interaction works as follows:
 * <ul>
 * <li>When a validator considers a document, it is expected to request
 * grammars of the type it can handle from this object using the
 * <code>retrieveInitialGrammarSet method. 
 * <li>If it requires a grammar
 * not in this set, it will request it from this Object using the
 * <code>retrieveGrammar method.  
 * <li> After successfully validating an
 * instance, the validator should make any new grammars it has compiled
 * available to this object using the <code>cacheGrammars
 * method; for ease of implementation it may make other Grammars it holds references to as well (i.e.,
 * it may return some grammars that were retrieved from the GrammarPool in earlier operations). </li>  

 *
 * @author Neil Graham, IBM
 */

public interface XMLGrammarPool {

    // <p>we are trying to make this XMLGrammarPool work for all kinds of
    // grammars, so we have a parameter "grammarType" for each of the
    // methods. </p>

    /**
     * <p> retrieve the initial known set of grammars. this method is
     * called by a validator before the validation starts. the application
     * can provide an initial set of grammars available to the current
     * validation attempt. </p>
     * @param grammarType the type of the grammar, from the
     *  <code>com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.grammars.Grammar interface.
     * @return the set of grammars the validator may put in its "bucket"
     */
    public Grammar[] retrieveInitialGrammarSet(String grammarType);

    /**
     * <p>return the final set of grammars that the validator ended up
     * with.
     * This method is called after the
     * validation finishes. The application may then choose to cache some
     * of the returned grammars. </p>
     * @param grammarType the type of the grammars being returned;
     * @param grammars an array containing the set of grammars being
     *  returned; order is not significant.
     */
    public void cacheGrammars(String grammarType, Grammar[] grammars);

    /**
     * <p> This method requests that the application retrieve a grammar
     * corresponding to the given GrammarIdentifier from its cache.
     * If it cannot do so it must return null; the parser will then
     * call the EntityResolver.  <strong>An application must not call its
     * EntityResolver itself from this method; this may result in infinite
     * recursions.</strong>
     * @param desc The description of the Grammar being requested.
     * @return the Grammar corresponding to this description or null if
     *  no such Grammar is known.
     */
    public Grammar retrieveGrammar(XMLGrammarDescription desc);

    /**
     * Causes the XMLGrammarPool not to store any grammars when
     * the cacheGrammars(String, Grammar[[]) method is called.
     */
    public void lockPool();

    /**
     * Allows the XMLGrammarPool to store grammars when its cacheGrammars(String, Grammar[])
     * method is called.  This is the default state of the object.
     */
    public void unlockPool();

    /**
     * Removes all grammars from the pool.
     */
    public void clear();
} // XMLGrammarPool