source: branches/HeuristicLab.Hive-3.4/sources/HeuristicLab.Hive/3.4/IJob.cs @ 6004

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#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Core;

namespace HeuristicLab.Hive {
  public interface IJob : INamedItem {

    TimeSpan ExecutionTime { get; }

    ExecutionState ExecutionState { get; }

    /// <summary>
    /// indicates wether it is possible to create childjobs from this job
    /// </summary>
    bool IsParallelizable { get; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Configuration to indicate if this job should create child-jobs which will be executed in hive
    /// Cannot be set true if IsParallelizable is false
    /// </summary>
    bool ComputeInParallel { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// If this is set to true, the job should be Resumed with the child-jobs attatched instead of Started
    /// </summary>
    bool CollectChildJobs { get; set; }

    void Prepare();

    void Start();

    void Pause();

    void Stop();

    void Resume(IEnumerable<IJob> childJobs);

    event EventHandler ComputeInParallelChanged;

    event EventHandler ExecutionTimeChanged;

    event EventHandler ExecutionStateChanged;

    event EventHandler JobFailed;

    event EventHandler JobStopped;

    event EventHandler JobPaused;

    /// <summary>
    /// When this event occurs the job wants to sleep until all his child jobs are finished
    /// </summary>
    event EventHandler WaitForChildJobs;

    /// <summary>
    /// This event will be fired when the job wants to have a child-job to be computed
    /// </summary>
    event EventHandler<EventArgs<IJob>> NewChildJob;

    /// <summary>
    /// Will be fired when job wants all child-jobs to be deleted from hive
    /// </summary>
    event EventHandler DeleteChildJobs;


  }
}