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package org.springframework.jdbc.core;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;

/**
 * Generic callback interface for code that operates on a JDBC Connection.
 * Allows to execute any number of operations on a single Connection,
 * using any type and number of Statements.
 *
 * <p>This is particularly useful for delegating to existing data access code
 * that expects a Connection to work on and throws SQLException. For newly
 * written code, it is strongly recommended to use JdbcTemplate's more specific
 * operations, for example a <code>query</code> or <code>update</code> variant.
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 1.1.3
 * @see JdbcTemplate#execute(ConnectionCallback)
 * @see JdbcTemplate#query
 * @see JdbcTemplate#update
 */
public interface ConnectionCallback {

	/**
	 * Gets called by JdbcTemplate.execute with an active JDBC Connection.
	 * Does not need to care about activating or closing the Connection,
	 * or handling transactions.
	 *
	 * <p>If called without a thread-bound JDBC transaction (initiated by
	 * DataSourceTransactionManager), the code will simply get executed on the
	 * JDBC connection with its transactional semantics. If JdbcTemplate is
	 * configured to use a JTA-aware DataSource, the JDBC connection and thus
	 * the callback code will be transactional if a JTA transaction is active.
	 *
	 * <p>Allows for returning a result object created within the callback, i.e.
	 * a domain object or a collection of domain objects. Note that there's
	 * special support for single step actions: see JdbcTemplate.queryForObject etc.
	 * A thrown RuntimeException is treated as application exception, it gets
	 * propagated to the caller of the template.
	 *
	 * @param con active JDBC Connection
	 * @return a result object, or null if none
	 * @throws SQLException if thrown by a JDBC method, to be auto-converted
	 * to a DataAccessException by a SQLExceptionTranslator
	 * @throws DataAccessException in case of custom exceptions
	 * @see JdbcTemplate#queryForObject(String, Class)
	 * @see JdbcTemplate#queryForList(String)
	 */
	Object doInConnection(Connection con) throws SQLException, DataAccessException;

}
