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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.engine;

/**
 * This interface defines the public API for changes to an EventSource that have not
 * been flushed to the database.
 *
 * @author Gail Badner
 */

import java.io.Serializable;
import org.hibernate.event.EventSource;

public interface NonFlushedChanges extends Serializable {

	/**
	 * Extracts the non-flushed Changes from an EventSource into this NonFlushedChanges object.
	 * <p>
	 * @param source
	 */
	void extractFromSession(EventSource source);

	/**
	 * Remove the non-flushed changes from this NonFlushedChanges object.
	 */
	void clear();
}