some comments fixed, small fix for windows OSes and some other things fixed

[hub.git] / inc / classes / interfaces / database / frontend / class_DatabaseFrontendInterface.php

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+<?php
+/**
+ * An interface for front-end database classes. The classes should prepare the
+ * objects for saving in the database. So for server-bases database classes SQL
+ * queries shall be generated and send to the backend classes. In case of local
+ * file databases the object shall be serialized and (maybe) transparently
+ * compressed before they got saved to a local file.
+ *
+ * @author             Roland Haeder <webmaster@mxchange.org>
+ * @version            0.3.0
+ * @copyright  Copyright(c) 2007, 2008 Roland Haeder, this is free software
+ * @license            GNU GPL 3.0 or any newer version
+ * @link               http://www.mxchange.org
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+interface DatabaseFrontendInterface extends FrameworkDatabaseInterface {
+       /**
+        * Loads data saved with saveObject from the database and re-creates a
+        * full object from it.
+        * If limitObject() was called before a new object ObjectContainer with
+        * all requested attributes will be returned instead.
+        *
+        * @return      Object  The fully re-created object or instance to
+        *                                      ObjectContainer
+        */
+       function loadObject ();
+}
+
+// [EOF]
+?>