Package com.day.cq.dam.api.collection

Interface SmartCollection

All Superinterfaces:

ResourceCollection

public interface SmartCollection
extends ResourceCollection

This interface defines a SmartCollection. Should be used, when working with Smart Collections i.e. collection with no static member, rather a query string.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.sling.resource.collection.ResourceCollection

RESOURCE_TYPE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Query	getQuery()	returns the query object that is used to query collection members.
Iterator<Resource>	getResources(long offset, long limit)	Returns an iterator over resources referred in the collection starting from position specified by the parameter "offset".

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.sling.resource.collection.ResourceCollection

add, add, contains, getName, getPath, getProperties, getResources, getValueMap, orderBefore, remove

Method Details

getQuery

Query getQuery()
        throws IOException,
RepositoryException

returns the query object that is used to query collection members.

Returns:

Query object

Throws:

IOException - thrown if an error occurs while reading from the binary stream

RepositoryException - thrown if an error occurs while accessing items in repository

getResources

Iterator<Resource> getResources(long offset,
 long limit)

Returns an iterator over resources referred in the collection starting from position specified by the parameter "offset". The size of the iterator is limited by the parameter "limit".

Returns:

iterator over the subset of resources referred in collection.