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Hierarchy Developer's Guide for Oracle Billing Insight > APIs for Customizing Oracle Billing Insight Hierarchy Manager >
IHierarchyHandle Interface
Like an EJBHandler for EJB object, the IHierarchyHandle interface provides a handler to a hierarchy object, serializes the handler to a secondary storage, and then uses it to restore the hierarchy object. Table 11 describes the methods available for the IHierarchyHandle API.
Table 11. IHierarchyHandle Methods
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java.lang.String getDisplayName() |
The display name for the hierarchy, which can be used to display a human-readable description of the hierarchy. |
IHierarchy getHierarchy() |
Retrieves the hierarchy corresponding to this handle. |
java.lang.String getHierarchyId() |
Returns a string identifier for the hierarchy. The value returned is usually a long value, but can change depending on the implementation. |
java.lang.Long getVersion() |
The version number of the hierarchy represented by this handle. The value is the database version number and is not related to versioned hierarchies. |
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