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#endregion
using System.Data;
namespace Spring.Data{
/// <summary>
/// Callback interface to process all result sets and rows in
/// an AdoTemplate query method.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Implementations of this interface perform the work
/// of extracting results but don't need worry about managing
/// ADO.NET resources, such as closing the reader or transaction management.
/// <p>
/// This interface is mainly used within the ADO.NET
/// framework. An IResultSetExtractor is usually a simpler choice
/// for result set (DataReader) processing, in particular a
/// RowMapperResultSetExtractor in combination with a IRowMapper.
/// </p>
/// <para>Note: in contracts to a IRowCallbackHandler, a ResultSetExtractor
/// is usually stateless and thus reusable, as long as it doesn't access
/// stateful resources or keep result state within the object.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
///
public interface IResultSetExtractor
{
/// <summary>
/// Implementations must implement this method to process all
/// result set and rows in the IDataReader.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="reader">The IDataReader to extract data from.
/// Implementations should not close this: it will be closed
/// by the AdoTemplate.</param>
/// <returns>An arbitrary result object or null if none. The
/// extractor will typically be stateful in the latter case.</returns>
object ExtractData(IDataReader reader);
}
}
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