ExistingEntityFinder (Atlassian Confluence 8.5.7 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractUserEntityFinder, CompoundExistingEntityFinder, ConfluenceCloudUserFinder, ConfluenceUserFinder, LabelFinder, PluginProvidedExistingEntityFinder
```
public interface ExistingEntityFinder
```
Allows to find objects already existing in the DB.

Since:

8.1.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Map<ImportedObjectV2,Object>`	`findExistingObjectIds(Collection<ImportedObjectV2> objects)`	Finds already existing objects in the database.
`Class<?>`	`getSupportedClass()`
`boolean`	`isSupportedJobSource(JobSource jobSource)`

- Method Detail
  - findExistingObjectIds
```
Map<ImportedObjectV2,Object> findExistingObjectIds(Collection<ImportedObjectV2> objects)
```
    Finds already existing objects in the database.
    
    Parameters:
    
    objects - collection of imported objects
    
    Returns:
    
    map where key is the importing object and value is the id of the alredy existing object.
  - getSupportedClass
```
Class<?> getSupportedClass()
```
    Returns:
    
    the entity class that is processed by this finder
  - isSupportedJobSource
```
boolean isSupportedJobSource(JobSource jobSource)
```
    Returns:
    
    the JobSource this finder accepts