com.ibm.itim.dataservices.model
Interface ComplexAttributeHandler

public interface ComplexAttributeHandler

This defines a generic interface to handle complex attribute

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.String attrName, java.lang.String value1, java.lang.String value2) Compares the two attribute values for a complex attribute and see if the values are equal or not
ComplexAttributeValue	getAttributeValue(java.lang.String attrName, java.lang.String attributeValueAsString) Constructs the ComplexAttributeValue object given the name and string representation of the attribute value assuming that the string format can be understood by the specific attribute handler
java.lang.String	getString(java.lang.String attrName, ComplexAttributeValue value) Returns the string representation of the complex attribute using pre-defined format by the specific attribute handler.
AttributeValues	getSubAttributeDefaults(java.lang.String attrName) Constructs set of sub-attributes for a complex attribute value The implementation of the handler will determine where the defaults are specified or how it is being generated.

Method Detail

getAttributeValue

ComplexAttributeValue getAttributeValue(java.lang.String attrName,
                                        java.lang.String attributeValueAsString)

Constructs the ComplexAttributeValue object given the name and string representation of the attribute value assuming that the string format can be understood by the specific attribute handler

Parameters:

attrName - The name of the attribute

attributeValueAsString - A string representation of a attribute value.

Returns:

ComplexAttributeValue that represents the attribute value

getString

java.lang.String getString(java.lang.String attrName,
                           ComplexAttributeValue value)

Returns the string representation of the complex attribute using pre-defined format by the specific attribute handler.

Parameters:

attrName - The name of the attribute

value - The value of a complex attribute. A complex attribute can be either single or multi valued

Returns:

String to represent the complex attribute value

getSubAttributeDefaults

AttributeValues getSubAttributeDefaults(java.lang.String attrName)

Constructs set of sub-attributes for a complex attribute value The implementation of the handler will determine where the defaults are specified or how it is being generated.

Parameters:

attrName - The name of the attribute

Returns:

AttributeValues that contains the set of default values for the sub-attributes, The default for each sub-attribute is specified in one AttributeValue object which could be either single or multi valued, the name of the AttributeValue object is the name of the sub-attribute

equals

boolean equals(java.lang.String attrName,
               java.lang.String value1,
               java.lang.String value2)

Compares the two attribute values for a complex attribute and see if the values are equal or not

Parameters:

attrName - The name of the attribute

value1 - The value of a complex attribute

value2 - The value of a complex attribute

Returns:

boolean true if the two given values are the same and false otherwise