net.sf.mmm.transaction.api

Interface TransactionContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

TransactionContextImpl

public interface TransactionContext

This is the interface for a context for custom-data associated with an TransactionAdapter.

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Map<String,Object>	getMap() This method gets the Map that allows to associate custom-data with a transaction.
boolean	isEmpty() This method determines if the map is empty.

Method Detail

getMap

Map<String,Object> getMap()

This method gets the Map that allows to associate custom-data with a transaction.
ATTENTION:
Please only use specific keys such as qualified class-names of your custom code.

Returns:

the Map for custom-data.

isEmpty

boolean isEmpty()

This method determines if the map is empty. The only difference to getMap(). isEmpty() this method allows to avoid creating a map in case of lazy allocation in getMap() just to determine that it is empty.

Returns:

true if the map is empty, false otherwise.