TwoPhaseCommit.cs

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// An interface for implementations that support 2-phase commit. You can use
    /// <see cref="TwoPhaseCommitTool"/> to execute a 2-phase commit algorithm over several
    /// <see cref="ITwoPhaseCommit"/>s.
    /// <para/>
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>
    public interface ITwoPhaseCommit
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The first stage of a 2-phase commit. Implementations should do as much work
        /// as possible in this method, but avoid actual committing changes. If the
        /// 2-phase commit fails, <see cref="Rollback()"/> is called to discard all changes
        /// since last successful commit.
        /// </summary>
        void PrepareCommit();

        /// <summary>
        /// The second phase of a 2-phase commit. Implementations should ideally do
        /// very little work in this method (following <see cref="PrepareCommit()"/>, and
        /// after it returns, the caller can assume that the changes were successfully
        /// committed to the underlying storage.
        /// </summary>
        void Commit();

        /// <summary>
        /// Discards any changes that have occurred since the last commit. In a 2-phase
        /// commit algorithm, where one of the objects failed to <see cref="Commit()"/> or
        /// <see cref="PrepareCommit()"/>, this method is used to roll all other objects
        /// back to their previous state.
        /// </summary>
        void Rollback();
    }
}