1 /* 2 3 Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.store.access.ColumnOrdering 4 5 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 6 contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 7 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 8 The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 9 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 10 the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 12 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 14 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 15 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 16 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 17 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 18 limitations under the License. 19 20 */ 21 22 package org.apache.derby.iapi.store.access; 23 24 import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException; 25 26 27 /** 28 29 The column ordering interface defines a column that is to be 30 ordered in a sort or index, and how it is to be ordered. Column 31 instances are compared by calling the compare(Orderable) method 32 of Orderable. 33 34 **/ 35 36 public interface ColumnOrdering 37 { 38 int getColumnId(); 39 boolean getIsAscending(); 40 } 41 42