Package org.wso2.carbon.registry.admin.api.relations

Interface IRelationService<DependenciesBean,AssociationTreeBean>

Type Parameters:

DependenciesBean - This bean can be used to manage dependencies of this resource. A dependency cannot have a type like an association. A dependency is a special type of association of type 'depends'.

AssociationTreeBean - This bean can be used to manage relationships from this resource. Each association can have a type, which can be used to group a set of related relationships.

public interface IRelationService<DependenciesBean,AssociationTreeBean>

Provides functionality to manage relationships (associations and dependencies) among resources and collections.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addAssociation(String path, String type, String associationPaths, String operation)	Method to add an association (or dependency).
AssociationTreeBean	getAssociationTree(String path, String type)	Method to obtain a list of associations.
DependenciesBean	getDependencies(String path)	Method to obtain a list of dependencies.

Method Details

getDependencies

DependenciesBean getDependencies(String path)
                          throws org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException

Method to obtain a list of dependencies.

Parameters:

path - the resource path.

Returns:

the list of dependencies.

Throws:

org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException - if the operation failed.

addAssociation

void addAssociation(String path,
 String type,
 String associationPaths,
 String operation)
             throws org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException

Method to add an association (or dependency).

Parameters:

path - the resource path.

type - the type of association. If the type of association is 'depends' a dependency will be created.

associationPaths - the list of associations to be added.

Throws:

org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException - if the operation failed.

getAssociationTree

AssociationTreeBean getAssociationTree(String path,
 String type)
                                throws org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException

Method to obtain a list of associations.

Parameters:

path - the resource path.

type - the type of association.

Returns:

the list of associations.

Throws:

org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.exceptions.RegistryException - if the operation failed.