com.atlassian.jira.user
Interface ExternalEntityStore

All Known Implementing Classes:

CachingExternalEntityStore, OfbizExternalEntityStore

public interface ExternalEntityStore

This interface is to be implemented in order to provide ability to create user records in the external entities for JIRA-Crowd integration.

Method Summary

Long	createIfDoesNotExist(String name) Create a unique local entity that our ProfileProvider can use to get a profile if one does not already exist for this name.

Method Detail

createIfDoesNotExist

Long createIfDoesNotExist(String name)

Create a unique local entity that our ProfileProvider can use to get a profile if one does not already exist for this name.

Parameters:

name - is a unique name that identifies a user, an id will be created and associated with this user.

Returns:

Long id, this is the created or existing id for the name.