What's the best name for this interface?

Question

I have an interface that defines the ability to persist an entity to a data store. I'm having trouble thinking of a name for it. Any ideas?

public interface IInterfaceForDefiningADataPersistenceOperation<T>
{
    void Store(T entity);
}

Answer 1

IRepository ?

Answer 2

How about IFooRepository, where Foo is some base-entity or describes the product. If it truly is generic, then perhaps just IRepository<T>

Answer 3

public interface IPersistenceStrategy<T>

I'm taking a leap and saying you're using the strategy pattern in order to persist things in different ways depending on the strategy you provide.

Answer 4

Did you not like any of these?

• IPersistenceOperation
• IDataStoreOperation
• IEntityStoreOperation

Answer 5

Wouldn't an interface be defining a group of operations, rather than 'an operation'?

Answer 6

IGateway

Then implementations are (for example): UserGateway, ArticleGateway and so on

Answer 7

IPersistEntities

Then you can derive class MyNewPersistenceThing : IPersistEntities

Answer 8

I'd go for IStorable

Answer 9

If your interface follows the repository pattern then I would go with IRepository.

If not then perhaps IDataMapper is more suitable.