com.communote.server.core.external

Interface IncrementalRepositoryChangeTracker

All Known Implementing Classes:

ADTrackingIncrementalRepositoryChangeTracker

public interface IncrementalRepositoryChangeTracker

Tracker for incremental repository changes.

Author:

Communote GmbH - http://www.communote.com/

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<ExternalUserGroup>	getNextGroups() Method to return the next groups from the repository.
Collection<User>	getNextUsers() Method to return the next users from the repository.
boolean	needsToAcceptMembersOfGroups() If this method returns true, the UserGroupSynchronizer has to visit the members of a group explicitly.
void	start() Method to be called before the synchronization starts.
void	stop(boolean success) Method to be called after the synchronization ran.

Method Detail

getNextGroups

Collection<ExternalUserGroup> getNextGroups()

Method to return the next groups from the repository.

Returns:

List of groups or null if no groups left.

getNextUsers

Collection<User> getNextUsers()

Method to return the next users from the repository.

Returns:

List of users or null if no users left.

needsToAcceptMembersOfGroups

boolean needsToAcceptMembersOfGroups()

If this method returns true, the UserGroupSynchronizer has to visit the members of a group explicitly. This could be useful, if getNextUser doesn't return users, which group membership has changed.

Returns:

True, if the synchronizer needs to visit the members of groups explicitly. Default is false.

start

void start()

Method to be called before the synchronization starts.

stop

void stop(boolean success)

Method to be called after the synchronization ran.

Parameters:

success - True, if the sync was successful.