Module java.sql
Package javax.sql

# Interface RowSetWriter

All Known Subinterfaces:
  `TransactionalWriter`, `XmlWriter`

public interface RowSetWriter
An object that implements the `RowSetWriter` interface, called a writer. A writer may be registered with a `RowSet` object that supports the reader/writer paradigm.

If a disconnected `RowSet` object modifies some of its data, and it has a writer associated with it, it may be implemented so that it calls on the writer's `writeData` method internally to write the updates back to the data source. In order to do this, the writer must first establish a connection with the rowset's data source.

If the data to be updated has already been changed in the data source, there is a conflict, in which case the writer will not write the changes to the data source. The algorithm the writer uses for preventing or limiting conflicts depends entirely on its implementation.

Since:
  1.4

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`boolean`
`writeData(RowSetInternal caller)`
Writes the changes in this `RowSetWriter` object's rowset back to the data source from which it got its data.

## Method Details

### writeData

boolean writeData(RowSetInternal caller) throws SQLException
Writes the changes in this `RowSetWriter` object's rowset back to the data source from which it got its data.

Parameters:
  `caller` - the `RowSet` object (1) that has implemented the `RowSetInternal` interface, (2) with which this writer is registered, and (3) that called this method internally
Returns:
  `true` if the modified data was written; `false` if not, which will be the case if there is a conflict
Throws:
  `SQLException` - if a database access error occurs