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package com.sun.star.report;

/**
 * This feeds data into the reporting engine, in case the data has been provided
 * by the caller. The methods are a mix of TableModel methods and methods borrowed
 * from the java.sql.ResultSet interface.
 *
 * The column and row index starts at 1 (as it is done in JDBC).
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner
 */
public interface DataSource extends DataRow
{

    int getRowCount() throws DataSourceException;

    boolean absolute(int row) throws DataSourceException;

    boolean next() throws DataSourceException;

    void close() throws DataSourceException;
}