/*
 * Distributed as part of c3p0 v.0.9.5.2
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Machinery For Change, Inc.
 *
 * Author: Steve Waldman <swaldman@mchange.com>
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *
 *     1) The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as 
 *        published by the Free Software Foundation
 *
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 */

package com.mchange.v2.c3p0;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.Connection;

/**
 *  <p>Define your own Connection tester if you want to
 *  override c3p0's default behavior for testing the validity
 *  of Connections and responding to Connection errors encountered.</p>
 *
 *  <p><b>Recommended:</b> If you'd like your ConnectionTester
 *  to support the user-configured <tt>preferredTestQuery</tt>
 *  parameter, please implement {@link com.mchange.v2.c3p0.UnifiedConnectionTester}.
 *
 *  <p>ConnectionTesters should be Serializable, immutable, 
 *  and must have public, no-arg constructors.</p>
 *  
 *  @see com.mchange.v2.c3p0.UnifiedConnectionTester
 *  @see com.mchange.v2.c3p0.AbstractConnectionTester
 */
public interface ConnectionTester extends Serializable
{
    public final static int CONNECTION_IS_OKAY       =  0;
    public final static int CONNECTION_IS_INVALID    = -1;
    public final static int DATABASE_IS_INVALID      = -8;

    public int activeCheckConnection(Connection c);

    public int statusOnException(Connection c, Throwable t);

    /**
     * Multiple testers that are of the same
     * class and use the same criteria for determining fatality
     * should test as equals().
     */
    public boolean equals( Object o );

    /**
     * keep consistent with equals()
     */
    public int hashCode();
}
