ReplicationPolicy (OpenJPA Parent POM 4.0.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ReplicationPolicy.Default
```
public interface ReplicationPolicy
```
Policy to select one or more of the physical databases referred as slice in which a given persistent instance will be persisted. This interface is invoked for entity types that are specified as ReplicatedTypes in the configuration.

Author:

Pinaki Poddar

See Also:

DistributionPolicy

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
`static class`	`ReplicationPolicy.Default`	Implements a default replication policy to replicate the given instance across all available slices.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String[]`	`replicate(java.lang.Object pc, java.util.List<java.lang.String> slices, java.lang.Object context)`	Gets the name of the slices where a given instance will be replicated.

- Method Detail
  - replicate
```
java.lang.String[] replicate(java.lang.Object pc,
                             java.util.List<java.lang.String> slices,
                             java.lang.Object context)
```
    Gets the name of the slices where a given instance will be replicated.
    
    Parameters:
    
    pc - The newly persistent or to-be-merged object.
    
    slices - list of names of the active slices. The ordering of the list is either explicit openjpa.slice.Names property or implicit i.e. alphabetic order of available identifiers if openjpa.slice.Names is unspecified.
    
    context - generic persistence context managing the given instance.
    
    Returns:
    
    identifier of the slices. This names must match one of the given slice names.
    
    See Also:
    
    DistributedConfiguration.getActiveSliceNames()