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

Common contract for individual return objects which can be either results (ResultSetOutput) or update counts (UpdateCountOutput). 
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Common contract for individual return objects which can be either results ({@link ResultSetOutput}) or update
 * counts ({@link UpdateCountOutput}).
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface Output {
	
Determine if this return is a result (castable to ResultSetOutput). The alternative is that it is an update count (castable to UpdateCountOutput). 
Returns:
true indicates that this can be safely cast to ResultSetOutput), other wise it can be cast to UpdateCountOutput./**
	 * Determine if this return is a result (castable to {@link ResultSetOutput}).  The alternative is that it is
	 * an update count (castable to {@link UpdateCountOutput}).
	 *
	 * @return {@code true} indicates that {@code this} can be safely cast to {@link ResultSetOutput}), other wise
	 * it can be cast to {@link UpdateCountOutput}.
	 */
	public boolean isResultSet();
}