1 /* 2 * Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation 3 * 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 15 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 16 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 17 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 18 * limitations under the License. 19 */ 20 21 package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client; 22 23 import java.util.Map; 24 25 public interface Attributes { 26 /** 27 * Sets an attribute. 28 * In case value = null attribute is removed from the attributes map. 29 * Attribute names starting with _ indicate system attributes. 30 * @param name attribute name 31 * @param value attribute value 32 */ 33 public void setAttribute(String name, byte[] value); 34 35 /** 36 * Gets an attribute 37 * @param name attribute name 38 * @return attribute value if attribute is set, <tt>null</tt> otherwise 39 */ 40 public byte[] getAttribute(String name); 41 42 /** 43 * Gets all attributes 44 * @return unmodifiable map of all attributes 45 */ 46 public Map<String, byte[]> getAttributesMap(); 47 }