RepTransactionFormatter Interface

package com.sybase.connector.repra.rep;

import com.sybase.connector.repra.logging.RaLogger

public interface RepTransactionFormatter
{
     /**
     returns an Object formatted by this formatter implementation.
     rse - the internal Object containing a replication event.
     */
     publicObject format(RepEvent rse) throws RepraException;

     /**
     returns an Object formatted by this formatter implementation.
     rse - The internal Object containing a replication event. 
     */
     public Object formatTransaction(RepEvent[] events)
          throws RepraException;

     /**
     Return true if RepEvent metadata is required for formatting. 
     If it returns true, the RepEvent will contain the data type of
     each field. Otherwise, the data type will be ignored for this 
     RepEvent.
     */
     public boolean requiresMetaData();

     /**
     Return true if RepEvent is required to be parsed to be a standard
     RepEvent that the RepEventParser can handle. If it returns false,
     the RepEvent will contain a text stream of the RepEvent only for the
     messaging client to parse it.
     */
     public boolean requiresParse();

     /**
     sets the default logger
     */
     public void setLogger(RaLogger log);
}