openethereum/util/src/journaldb/traits.rs

// Copyright 2015, 2016 Ethcore (UK) Ltd.
// This file is part of Parity.

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//! Disk-backed `HashDB` implementation.

use common::*;
use hashdb::*;

/// A `HashDB` which can manage a short-term journal potentially containing many forks of mutually
/// exclusive actions.
pub trait JournalDB : HashDB + Send + Sync {
	/// Return a copy of ourself, in a box.
	fn boxed_clone(&self) -> Box<JournalDB>;

	/// Returns heap memory size used
	fn mem_used(&self) -> usize;

	/// Check if this database has any commits
	fn is_empty(&self) -> bool;

	/// Get the latest era in the DB. None if there isn't yet any data in there.
	fn latest_era() -> Option<u64> { self.latest_era }

	/// Commit all recent insert operations and canonical historical commits' removals from the
	/// old era to the backing database, reverting any non-canonical historical commit's inserts.
	fn commit(&mut self, now: u64, id: &H256, end: Option<(u64, H256)>) -> Result<u32, UtilError>;

	/// State data query
	fn state(&self, _id: &H256) -> Option<Bytes> {
		None
	}
}