org.opends.server.admin
Interface PropertyProvider

All Known Subinterfaces:

ManagedObject<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractManagedObject, DefaultManagedObject, ServerManagedObject

public interface PropertyProvider

An interface which can be used to initialize the contents of a managed object.

Field Summary

static PropertyProvider

DEFAULT_PROVIDER A property provider which always returns empty property values, indicating default behavior.

Method Summary

<T> java.util.Collection<T>

getPropertyValues(PropertyDefinition<T> d) Get the property values associated with the specified property definition.

Field Detail

DEFAULT_PROVIDER

static final PropertyProvider DEFAULT_PROVIDER

A property provider which always returns empty property values, indicating default behavior.

Method Detail

getPropertyValues

<T> java.util.Collection<T> getPropertyValues(PropertyDefinition<T> d)
                                          throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Get the property values associated with the specified property definition.

Implementations are not required to validate the values that they provide. Specifically:

• they do not need to guarantee that the provided values are valid according to the property's syntax
• they do not need to provide values for mandatory properties
• they do not need to ensure that single-valued properties do contain at most one value.

The returned set of values is allowed to contain duplicates.

Type Parameters:

T - The underlying type of the property.

Parameters:

d - The Property definition.

Returns:

Returns a newly allocated set containing a copy of the property's values. An empty set indicates that the property has no values defined and any default behavior is applicable.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If this property provider does not recognise the requested property definition.