com.wles.blm
Class BLMComponentManager

java.lang.Object
  com.wles.blm.BLMComponentManager

Direct Known Subclasses:

BLMApplicationManager, BLMDeclarationManager, BLMDirectoryManager, BLMLocalSubjectGroupManager, BLMLocalUserManager, BLMPrivgrpManager, BLMPrivilegeManager, BLMRoleManager

public abstract class BLMComponentManager

extends java.lang.Object

Abstracts all the basic funcitonality of the derived manager classes. The derived classes implement the abstract functions. This class intorduces the concept of collection IDs. Many of the methods will return a unique collection ID which is a reference to the result set for a call on that method. This ID can be be used as input to other methods to interogate the result set. See getCount, find, getReport for more information on collection accessor methods.

Constructor Summary

BLMComponentManager()

Method Summary

abstract void	create(java.lang.String name) Creates the named element.
abstract java.lang.String	filter(java.lang.String filterPattern) Finds a set of policy elements matching the specified filter pattern.
abstract boolean	find(java.lang.String cID, java.lang.String name) Checks for a named entity within a collection.
abstract int	getCount(java.lang.String cID) Gets the number of elements in the specified collection.
abstract void	release(java.lang.String cID) Releases the specified collection.
abstract void	remove(java.lang.String name) Removes the named entity from the system.
abstract void	rename(java.lang.String oldName, java.lang.String newName) Renames a policy element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BLMComponentManager

public BLMComponentManager()

Method Detail

create

public abstract void create(java.lang.String name)
                     throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Creates the named element.

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

filter

public abstract java.lang.String filter(java.lang.String filterPattern)
                                 throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Finds a set of policy elements matching the specified filter pattern. Returns a collection ID specific to the type of data in the result set.

Parameters:

filterPattern - the filter pattern to match

Returns:

a collection ID for the result set

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

See Also:

getCount(String CID), release(String cID), find(String cID, String name)

find

public abstract boolean find(java.lang.String cID,
                             java.lang.String name)
                      throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Checks for a named entity within a collection.

Parameters:

cID - the ID of the collection to search

name - the name of the entity to search for

Returns:

true if found, false if not

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

getCount

public abstract int getCount(java.lang.String cID)
                      throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Gets the number of elements in the specified collection.

Parameters:

cID - the ID of the collection

Returns:

the number of elements in the collection

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

release

public abstract void release(java.lang.String cID)
                      throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Releases the specified collection. This allows the BLM to free up any system resources for this collection.

Parameters:

cID - the ID of the collection

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

remove

public abstract void remove(java.lang.String name)
                     throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Removes the named entity from the system.

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException

rename

public abstract void rename(java.lang.String oldName,
                            java.lang.String newName)
                     throws com.wles.blm.BLMException

Renames a policy element.

Parameters:

oldName - the old name of the element

newName - the new name of the element

Throws:

com.wles.blm.BLMException