Module io.hotmoka.local

Package io.hotmoka.local

Interface CheckableStore

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Store

public interface CheckableStore
extends Store

A store that can be checked out, that is, its view of the world can be moved back in time. Different moments of the store are identifies by hashes, that can be checked out when needed.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	checkout(byte[] hash)	Resets the store to the view of the world expressed by the given hash.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

close

Methods inherited from interface io.hotmoka.local.Store

getError, getHistory, getHistoryUncommitted, getManifest, getManifestUncommitted, getNow, getRequest, getResponse, getResponseUncommitted, push, push, replace

Method Details

checkout

void checkout(byte[] hash)

Resets the store to the view of the world expressed by the given hash. This assumes that no commit after the one that created the given hash has been garbage-collected, since otherwise some data might be missing for the given hash, which might result in missing objects.

Parameters:

hash - the hash to reset to