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-/*
- * 
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * 
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- * 
- */
-package org.apache.cassandra.cql;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ConsistencyLevel;
-
-/**
- * A <code>BATCH UPDATE</code> statement parsed from a CQL query.
- *
- */
-public class BatchUpdateStatement
-{
-    private ConsistencyLevel consistency;
-    private List<UpdateStatement> updates;
-    
-    /**
-     * Creates a new BatchUpdateStatement from a list of UpdateStatements and a
-     * Thrift consistency level.
-     * 
-     * @param updates a list of UpdateStatements
-     * @param consistency Thrift consistency level enum
-     */
-    public BatchUpdateStatement(List<UpdateStatement> updates, ConsistencyLevel consistency)
-    {
-        this.updates = updates;
-        this.consistency = consistency;
-    }
-    
-    public ConsistencyLevel getConsistencyLevel()
-    {
-        return consistency;
-    }
-    
-    public List<UpdateStatement> getUpdates()
-    {
-        return updates;
-    }
-    
-    public String toString()
-    {
-        return String.format("BatchUpdateStatement(updates=%s, consistency=%s)",
-                             updates,
-                             consistency);
-    }
-}