/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
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package org.hibernate.tool.schema.extract.spi;

import java.sql.SQLException;

Because JDBC (at least up to an including Java 7, JDBC 4) still does not have support for obtaining information
about sequences from DatabaseMetaData.
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Because JDBC (at least up to an including Java 7, JDBC 4) still does not have support for obtaining information
 * about sequences from DatabaseMetaData.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface SequenceInformationExtractor {
	
Get the information about sequences.
Params:
extractionContext – Access to resources needed to perform the extraction
Throws:
SQLException – Don't bother handling SQLExceptions (unless you want to), we will deal with them in the
caller.
Returns:
The extracted information about existing sequences./**
	 * Get the information about sequences.
	 *
	 * @param extractionContext Access to resources needed to perform the extraction
	 *
	 * @return The extracted information about existing sequences.
	 *
	 * @throws java.sql.SQLException Don't bother handling SQLExceptions (unless you want to), we will deal with them in the
	 * caller.
	 */
	public Iterable<SequenceInformation> extractMetadata(ExtractionContext extractionContext) throws SQLException;
}