source: branches/HeuristicLab.Hive.New/HeuristicLab.Hive/3.4/IJob.cs @ 5045

#region License Information
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#endregion

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

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; }
    event EventHandler ComputeInParallelChanged;

    void Run();
    void Prepare();
    void Start();
    void Stop();
    void Resume(IEnumerable<IJob> childJobs);

    event EventHandler JobStopped;
    event EventHandler JobFailed;

    /// <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;
    
    /// <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; }
  }
}