com.atlassian.user
Interface EntityManager

All Known Subinterfaces:

GroupManager, UserManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

CachingGroupManager, CachingUserManager, DelegatingGroupManager, DelegatingUserManager, HibernateGroupManager, HibernateUserManager, MemoryGroupManager, MemoryUserManager, MemoryUserManagerReadOnly, OSUEntityManager, OSUGroupManager, OSUUserManager, ReadOnlyGroupManager, ReadOnlyUserManager

public interface EntityManager

Method Summary

RepositoryIdentifier	getIdentifier()
RepositoryIdentifier	getRepository(Entity entity)
boolean	isCreative() Used to detemine whether an entity can be created (eg, can call UserManager.createUser(String) or GroupManager.createGroup(String).

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public RepositoryIdentifier getIdentifier()

Returns:

the RepositoryIdentifier for the repository which is managed by this instance.

getRepository

public RepositoryIdentifier getRepository(Entity entity)
                                   throws EntityException

Returns:

the RepositoryIdentifier of the repository in which the entity is stored, or null if the entity cannot be found.

Throws:

EntityException - if the entity cannot be found, or trying to retrieve it results in an error

isCreative

public boolean isCreative()

Used to detemine whether an entity can be created (eg, can call UserManager.createUser(String) or GroupManager.createGroup(String).

Returns:

true to indicate that Entity objects can be created by this manager, or false to indicate not.