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IHierarchyHandle Interface


Like an EJBHandler for EJB object, this interface provides a handler to a hierarchy object, serializes it to a secondary storage, and then uses it to restore the hierarchy object.

Table 8. IHierarchyHandle Methods
Method
Description

java.lang.String getDisplayName()

Display Name for the hierarchy (this can be used to display a human readable description of the Hierarchy).

IHierarchy getHierarchy()

Get the hierarchy corresponding to this handle.

java.lang.String getHierarchyId()

Returns a string identifier for the hierarchy (this is usually a Long value but may change depending on implementation).

java.lang.Long getVersion()

The version number of hierarchy represented by this handle, this is the database version number and is not related to versioned hierarchies.

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