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+# Copyright (C) 2007 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+# USA.
+
+"""Interfaces for database interaction.
+
+By providing an object with this interface and declaring it in a package
+setup.py file as an entry point in the 'mailman.database' group with the name
+'initializer', you can distribute entirely different database layers for
+Mailman's back end.
+"""
+
+from zope.interface import Interface, Attribute
+
+
+
+class IDatabase(Interface):
+    """Database layer interface."""
+
+    def initialize():
+        """Initialize the database layer, using whatever means necessary."""
+
+    def flush():
+        """Flush current database changes."""
+
+    # XXX Eventually we probably need to support a transaction manager
+    # interface, e.g. begin(), commit(), abort().  We will probably also need
+    # to support a shutdown() method for cleanly disconnecting from the
+    # database.sy
+
+    list_manager = Attribute(
+        """The IListManager instance provided by the database layer.""")
+
+    user_manager = Attribute(
+        """The IUserManager instance provided by the database layer.""")