Retrieving the Slots for an Object

Slots are arbitrary attributes that you can create for an object. Use the RegistryObject.getSlots method to retrieve a Collection of the object’s slots. For each slot, you can retrieve its name, values, and type. The name of a Slot object is a String, not an InternationalString, and a slot has a Collection of values. The following fragment retrieves and displays an object’s slots:

Collection slots = object.getSlots();
Iterator slotIter = slots.iterator();
while (slotIter.hasNext()) {
    Slot slot = (Slot) slotIter.next();
    String name = slot.getName();
    System.out.println("  Slot name is " + name);
    Collection values = slot.getValues();
    Iterator valIter = values.iterator();
    int count = 1;
    while (valIter.hasNext()) {
        String value = (String) valIter.next();
        System.out.println("  Slot value " + count++ +
             ": " + value);
    }
    String type = slot.getSlotType();
    if (type != null) {
        System.out.println("  Slot type is " + type);
}

Some of the examples have a showSlots method that uses this code. See, for example, JAXRSearchByName.java in the directory <INSTALL>/registry/samples/search-name/src.