SortController (Apache Derby V10.14 Internals)

All Known Implementing Classes:

MergeInserter
```
public interface SortController
```
A sort controller is an interface for inserting rows into a sort.
A sort is created with the createSort method of TransactionController. The rows are read back with a scan controller returned from the openSortScan method of TranscationController.

See Also:

TransactionController.openSort(long), ScanController

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`completedInserts()`	Inform SortController that all the rows have been inserted into it.
`SortInfo`	`getSortInfo()`	Return SortInfo object which contains information about the current state of the sort.
`void`	`insert(DataValueDescriptor[] row)`	Insert a row into the sort.

- Method Detail
  - completedInserts
```
void completedInserts()
```
    Inform SortController that all the rows have been inserted into it.
  - insert
```
void insert(DataValueDescriptor[] row)
     throws StandardException
```
    Insert a row into the sort.
    
    Parameters:
    
    row - The row to insert into the SortController. The stored representations of the row's columns are copied into a new row somewhere in the sort.
    
    Throws:
    
    StandardException - Standard exception policy.
  - getSortInfo
```
SortInfo getSortInfo()
              throws StandardException
```
    Return SortInfo object which contains information about the current state of the sort.
    
    Returns:
    
    The SortInfo object which contains info about current sort.
    
    Throws:
    
    StandardException - Standard exception policy.
    
    See Also:
    
    SortInfo