Package com.webmethods.portal.system

Interface IThingComponentProvider

All Superinterfaces:

IComponent, IComponentProvider, IInitializable, IURIResolver

All Known Subinterfaces:

IPresentationManager, IWebAppRuntimeConfigManager

public interface IThingComponentProvider
extends IComponentProvider

This is an implementation of IComponentProvider which stores its IComponentData metadata in the database.

Various implementations of IThingComponentProvider use different dbo's to store their own specific metadata. But all the dbo's will extends ComponentData

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.system.IComponentProvider

ATTR_APP_NAME, ATTR_BEG_QUERY, ATTR_END_QUERY, ATTR_MID_QUERY, BIZPOLICY_MANAGER, CACHE_PROVIDER, COMMAND_PROVIDER, COMPONENTS_QUERY, INSTALL_PROVIDER, MECH_PROVIDER, METACONTEXT_PROVIDER, PHASE_PROVIDER, POLICY_PROVIDER, SEARCH_PROVIDER

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getComponentDataXTypeName()	Each concrete IThingComponentProvider might have its own unique ComponentData xtype.
String	getDefaultCategoryName()	When registering a new IComponent, the IComponentData will be stored in a sub-category of this IThingComponentProvider.
IURI	getRootStorageFolder()	All of the persistent metadata is stored in a folder.

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.system.IComponent

getComponentData, getComponentName, getComponentProvider, getURI, isInitialized, setComponentData, setComponentProvider

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.system.IComponentProvider

exists, getComponent, getComponent, getComponent, getComponentQueryString, getComponents, getDefaultComponent, getLogger, initDeferredWebAppComponents, lookup, registerComponent, reloadComponent, reloadComponent, unregisterComponent, upgradeComponentDataFromBootstrapComponentData

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.system.init.IInitializable

init, shutdown

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.system.IURIResolver

acquireURI, acquireURI

Method Details

getComponentDataXTypeName

String getComponentDataXTypeName()
                          throws PortalException

Each concrete IThingComponentProvider might have its own unique ComponentData xtype. This is the xtypes name. Note, the xtype must already be installed.

Throws:

PortalException

getRootStorageFolder

IURI getRootStorageFolder()
                   throws PortalException

All of the persistent metadata is stored in a folder. This returns the IURI of the folder that stores the various IComponentData.

Returns:

the root folder where all of it's IComponentData are located.

Throws:

PortalException

getDefaultCategoryName

String getDefaultCategoryName()
                       throws PortalException

When registering a new IComponent, the IComponentData will be stored in a sub-category of this IThingComponentProvider. If no category is specified, the name returned by this api will serve as the default category name.

Returns:

the default category name for newly registered IComponents.

Throws:

PortalException