org.fcrepo.connector.fedora3

Interface RepositoryOrganizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

FlatTruncatedOrganizer

public interface RepositoryOrganizer

An interface that defines methods to expose an arbitrary organization of objects (from a fedora 3 repository) in a federation.

Author:

Michael Durbin

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<String>	getChildrenForId(String id) Gets the id values of all children nodes for the node with the given id.
String	getParentForId(String id) Gets the id of the parent of the node with the given id.
boolean	isOrganizationalNode(String id) Determine whether a given node (identified by id) is an organizational node fabricated by this RepositoryOrganizer implementation.

Method Detail

getChildrenForId

List<String> getChildrenForId(String id)

Gets the id values of all children nodes for the node with the given id.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the id is not an organizational node

getParentForId

String getParentForId(String id)

Gets the id of the parent of the node with the given id.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the id has never been returned by a call to getChildrenForId.

isOrganizationalNode

boolean isOrganizationalNode(String id)

Determine whether a given node (identified by id) is an organizational node fabricated by this RepositoryOrganizer implementation.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the id has never been returned by a call to getChildrenForId.