com.bea.wlcp.wlng.api.plugin
Interface PluginSouth

All Superinterfaces:

Plugin

public interface PluginSouth

extends Plugin

Network facing interface of a plug-in.

Method Summary

abstract void	prepareRequestContext(RequestContext ctx, ContextMapperInfo info) This method is called only once per application facing request after the current RequestContext has been rebuild.
abstract java.lang.String	resolveAppInstanceGroupdId(ContextMapperInfo info) Returns the application instance group id (now known as application instance id) given the set of argument values available in the info parameter.

Method Detail

prepareRequestContext

public void prepareRequestContext(RequestContext ctx,
                                  ContextMapperInfo info)

This method is called only once per application facing request after the current RequestContext has been rebuild. The plug-in has a chance to add additional values to the RequestContext before the application facing request continues to flow. This method is called after resolveAppInstanceGroupId(ContextMapperInfo). The default implementation is supposed to do nothing.

Parameters:

ctx - The current RequestContext that has been rebuild.

info - The ContextMapperInfo containing the annotated network parameters.

resolveAppInstanceGroupdId

public java.lang.String resolveAppInstanceGroupdId(ContextMapperInfo info)

Returns the application instance group id (now known as application instance id) given the set of argument values available in the info parameter. This method is called only once per application facing request and is used by the context aspect to rebuild the RequestContext for the current request. The ContextMapperInfo contains all the annotated parameters of the method in the PluginSouth that has been invoked by the network.

Parameters:

info - The ContextMapperInfo containing the annotated network parameters.

Returns:

String The application instance group id (now known as application instance id) given the network parameters.