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namespace Doctrine\DBAL\Sharding\ShardChoser;

use Doctrine\DBAL\Sharding\PoolingShardConnection;

/**
 * Given a distribution value this shard-choser strategy will pick the shard to
 * connect to for retrieving rows with the distribution value.
 *
 * @author Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>
 */
interface ShardChoser
{
    /**
     * Picks a shard for the given distribution value.
     *
     * @param string                                         $distributionValue
     * @param \Doctrine\DBAL\Sharding\PoolingShardConnection $conn
     *
     * @return integer
     */
    function pickShard($distributionValue, PoolingShardConnection $conn);
}