com.atlassian.confluence.internal.relations

Interface RelationManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultRelationManager

public interface RelationManager

Manages relations for entities and users. "Relation" abstraction is used for "marking" different entities as related. So far relations of types "user2content", "user2user" and "content2content" are supported Good examples of relations are Watches (when user marks certain pages as watchable), Likes (user marks content as "Liked") or Favourites (content is marked as favourite by user) (all are "user2content" type of relations).

It is very similar to the content properties, but the very important difference is that for given page we're not interested for all relations, but only if it is related with one particular entity (f.e. to show the page we don't need to know all the users who "favourited" this page, we just need to know if the current user did). At the same time we need to fetch all the contentproperties to render the page properly.

So it was decided to create generic relation service to feed and serve "relational" functionality efficiently.

Each relation contains a source (for example, in favourite relations, source is the user, which favourited some page), target (for example, in favourite relations, target is the page, favourited by user) and some metadata like relation name etc. Depends on type of entities, which participate in relation, relations may be one of the 3 types: user2user (when both source and target are users - for example, following relation), user2content (example: favouriting, watching, Liking etc.) and content2content (when both source and target are content object) (pls. see RelationshipTypeEnum for more details)

Since:

5.9

See Also:

RelationEntity, RelatableEntity, RelationService

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
RelationEntity	addRelation(RelatableEntity source, RelatableEntity target, RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor) Create a new relation between 2 entities.
PageResponse<RelatableEntity>	getSources(RelationQuery request, LimitedRequest pageRequest) Fetch all related sources for the entity.
int	getSourcesCount(RelationQuery request) Get total number of related sources for the entity.
PageResponse<RelatableEntity>	getTargets(RelationQuery request, LimitedRequest pageRequest) Fetch all related targets for the entity.
int	getTargetsCount(RelationQuery request) Get total number of related targets for the entity.
boolean	isRelated(RelatableEntity source, RelatableEntity target, RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor) Checks if given entities are related.
void	moveRelationsToContent(RelatableEntity fromRelatableEntity, RelatableEntity toRelatableEntity, RelationDescriptor descriptor) Moves all the relations of the specified type from one entity to another.
int	removeAllRelations(RelatableEntity relatableEntity) This method removes all relations (across all names and types), where given entity participates.
int	removeAllRelationsFromCurrentAndHistoricalEntities(RelatableEntity relatableEntity) This method removes all relations (across all names and types), where given entity participates.
int	removeAllRelationsFromEntityWithType(RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor, RelatableEntity relatableEntity) This method remove all relations of the given type where the given entity participates
void	removeRelation(RelatableEntity source, RelatableEntity target, RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor) Delete relation.

Method Detail

isRelated

boolean isRelated(RelatableEntity source,
                  RelatableEntity target,
                  RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor)

Checks if given entities are related. Name of relation is specified by Relation argument.

Parameters:

source -

target -

relationDescriptor -

Returns:

true if entities are related, false otherwise.

addRelation

RelationEntity addRelation(RelatableEntity source,
                           RelatableEntity target,
                           RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor)

Create a new relation between 2 entities. This method does nothing if relation already exists. Name of relation is specified by Relation argument

Parameters:

source -

target -

relationDescriptor -

Returns:

created (or existent) relation

removeRelation

void removeRelation(RelatableEntity source,
                    RelatableEntity target,
                    RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor)

Delete relation. This method does nothing if relation already exists. Name of relation is specified by Relation argument

Parameters:

source -

target -

relationDescriptor -

removeAllRelations

int removeAllRelations(RelatableEntity relatableEntity)

This method removes all relations (across all names and types), where given entity participates.

Parameters:

relatableEntity -

Returns:

number of relations which were removed.

removeAllRelationsFromEntityWithType

int removeAllRelationsFromEntityWithType(RelationDescriptor relationDescriptor,
                                         RelatableEntity relatableEntity)

This method remove all relations of the given type where the given entity participates

Parameters:

relationDescriptor -

relatableEntity -

Returns:

number of relations which were removed

removeAllRelationsFromCurrentAndHistoricalEntities

int removeAllRelationsFromCurrentAndHistoricalEntities(RelatableEntity relatableEntity)

This method removes all relations (across all names and types), where given entity participates. It also removes all relations from the historical versions of the given entity if the entity is the most current version of content

Parameters:

relatableEntity -

Returns:

number of relations which were removed.

moveRelationsToContent

void moveRelationsToContent(RelatableEntity fromRelatableEntity,
                            RelatableEntity toRelatableEntity,
                            RelationDescriptor descriptor)

Moves all the relations of the specified type from one entity to another. The source entity will have all relations of the specified type removed

Parameters:

fromRelatableEntity - the entity from which to remove the relations

toRelatableEntity - the entity to which the relations will be added

descriptor - the type of relation to move

getSources

@Nonnull
PageResponse<RelatableEntity> getSources(RelationQuery request,
                                                  LimitedRequest pageRequest)

Fetch all related sources for the entity. Fetching parameters (relation name, filtering etc.) is provided by request argument

Parameters:

request -

pageRequest -

Returns:

PageResponse

See Also:

RelationQuery, LimitedRequest

getTargets

@Nonnull
PageResponse<RelatableEntity> getTargets(RelationQuery request,
                                                  LimitedRequest pageRequest)

Fetch all related targets for the entity. Fetching parameters (relation name, filtering etc.) is provided by request argument

Parameters:

request -

pageRequest -

Returns:

PageResponse

See Also:

RelationQuery, LimitedRequest

getSourcesCount

int getSourcesCount(RelationQuery request)

Get total number of related sources for the entity. Querying parameters (relation name, filtering etc.) is provided by request argument

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

total number of related sources for the entity

See Also:

RelationQuery

getTargetsCount

int getTargetsCount(RelationQuery request)

Get total number of related targets for the entity. Querying parameters (relation name, filtering etc.) is provided by request argument

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

total number of related targets for the entity

See Also:

RelationQuery