ProfileProviderAdapter Class

The ProfileProviderAdapter is a subclass of the ProviderAdapter that includes convenience wrappers around some commonly used methods in the ProviderContext interface, like get/set*Property(), exists*Property(), get/setStringAttribute(), and getTemplate().

The advantages of using the wrapper methods in the ProfileProviderAdapter class as opposed to using the methods in the ProviderContext interface are the following:

• For example, the ProviderContext.getStringProperty() accepts the channel name as an argument. Since the ProfileProviderAdapter knows the channel name, it can use ProfileProviderAdapter.getStringProperty() method without providing the channel name.

• All of the methods in ProviderContext throw a ProviderContextException. The analogous methods in ProfileProviderAdapter throw a ProviderException. For example, when implementing the getContent() method, since this method is already defined to throw a ProviderException, when a client calls ProfileProviderAdapter.getStringProperty() inside the getContent() method, you need not implement a try-catch block. However, if you use ProviderContext.getStringProperty(), you must catch the ProviderContextException.

See the Javadocs for more information on the methods in this class.