com.webmethods.portal.service.dir

Interface IDirRole

All Superinterfaces:

IDirPrincipal, IView, Serializable

public interface IDirRole
extends IDirPrincipal

A collection of principals that is determined by an external IRoleProvider who is able to determine whether a principal belongs to the collection, but not necessarilly what the entire collection is.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.service.view.IView

PROP_DESCRIPTION, PROP_NAME, PROP_TYPE, PROP_URI

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IThingID	getRoleProviderID() Using this id, you can query the IDirSystem to obtain the appropriate role provider
IThingID	getThingID() Using this ID, you get the actual contained storage object of this role

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.service.dir.IDirPrincipal

getDirectoryPrincipalID, getDirectoryServiceName, getDirectoryServiceThingID, getDirectoryURI, getDN, getEmail, getName, getType, isDirectoryServiceEnabled, isInitialized

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.service.view.IView

getProperties, getProperty, getPropertyNames, getURI

Method Detail

getRoleProviderID

IThingID getRoleProviderID()
                    throws PortalException

Using this id, you can query the IDirSystem to obtain the appropriate role provider

Returns:

the internal name of the role provider

Throws:

PortalException

getThingID

IThingID getThingID()

Using this ID, you get the actual contained storage object of this role

Returns:

the thingID of the internal storage xtype