package simpledb;

/** PageId is an interface to a specific page of a specific table. */
public interface PageId {

    /** Return a representation of this page id object as a collection of
	integers (used for logging)

	This class MUST have a constructor that accepts n integer parameters,
	where n is the number of integers returned in the array from serialize.
    */
    public int[] serialize();

    /** @return the unique tableid hashcode with this PageId */
    public int tableid();
    
    /** 
     * @return a hash code for this page, represented by the concatenation of
     *   the table number and the page number (needed if a PageId is used as a
     *   key in a hash table in the BufferPool, for example.)
     * @see BufferPool 
     */
    public int hashCode();
    
    /** 
     * Compares one PageId to another.
     *
     * @param o The object to compare against (must be a PageId)
     * @return true if the objects are equal (e.g., page numbers and table
     *   ids are the same)
     */
    public boolean equals(Object o);
    
    public int pageno();
}