/*
 * Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package javax.sql;

import java.sql.*;

/**
 * <P>An object that implements the RowSetWriter interface may be registered
 * with a RowSet object that supports the reader/writer paradigm.
 * The RowSetWriter.writeRow() method is called internally by a RowSet that supports 
 * the reader/writer paradigm to write the contents of the rowset to a data source.
 */

public interface RowSetWriter {

  /**
    <P>This method is called to write data to the data source
    that is backing the rowset.

    * @param caller the calling rowset 
    * @return true if the row was written, false if not due to a conflict
    * @exception SQLException if a database-access error occur
   */
  boolean writeData(RowSetInternal caller) throws SQLException;  

}