edu.vt.middleware.ldap.bean
Class AbstractLdapAttribute<T extends Set<Object>>

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.ldap.bean.AbstractLdapBean
      edu.vt.middleware.ldap.bean.AbstractLdapAttribute<T>

Type Parameters:

T - type of backing set

All Implemented Interfaces:

LdapAttribute

Direct Known Subclasses:

OrderedLdapBeanFactory.OrderedLdapAttribute, SortedLdapBeanFactory.SortedLdapAttribute, UnorderedLdapBeanFactory.UnorderedLdapAttribute

public abstract class AbstractLdapAttribute<T extends Set<Object>>
extends AbstractLdapBean
implements LdapAttribute

AbstractLdapAttribute provides a base implementation of LdapAttribute where the underlying values are backed by a Set.

Version:

$Revision: 1330 $ $Date: 2010-05-23 18:10:53 -0400 (Sun, 23 May 2010) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

protected static int	HASH_CODE_SEED hash code seed.
protected String	name Name for this attribute.
protected Set<Object>	values Values for this attribute.

Fields inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.ldap.bean.AbstractLdapBean

beanFactory, logger

Constructor Summary

AbstractLdapAttribute(LdapBeanFactory lbf)
Creates a new AbstractLdapAttribute with the supplied ldap bean factory.

Method Summary

protected void	convertValuesToString(Set<String> stringValues) Converts the underlying set of objects to a set of strings.
String	getName() This returns the name of this LdapAttribute.
abstract Set<String>	getStringValues() This returns the value(s) of this LdapAttribute Values are encoded in base64 format if the underlying value is of type byte[].
Set<Object>	getValues() This returns the value(s) of this LdapAttribute.
int	hashCode() This returns the hash code for this object.
void	setAttribute(Attribute attribute) This sets this LdapAttribute using the supplied attribute.
void	setName(String name) This sets the name of this LdapAttribute.
Attribute	toAttribute() This returns an Attribute that represents the values in this LdapAttribute.
String	toString() This returns a string representation of this object.

Methods inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.ldap.bean.AbstractLdapBean

equals

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

HASH_CODE_SEED

protected static final int HASH_CODE_SEED

hash code seed.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

name

protected String name

Name for this attribute.

values

protected Set<Object> values

Values for this attribute.

Constructor Detail

AbstractLdapAttribute

public AbstractLdapAttribute(LdapBeanFactory lbf)

Creates a new AbstractLdapAttribute with the supplied ldap bean factory.

Parameters:

lbf - LdapBeanFactory

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

This returns the name of this LdapAttribute.

Specified by:

getName in interface LdapAttribute

Returns:

String

getValues

public Set<Object> getValues()

This returns the value(s) of this LdapAttribute.

Specified by:

getValues in interface LdapAttribute

Returns:

Set

getStringValues

public abstract Set<String> getStringValues()

This returns the value(s) of this LdapAttribute Values are encoded in base64 format if the underlying value is of type byte[]. The returned set is unmodifiable.

Specified by:

getStringValues in interface LdapAttribute

Returns:

unmodifiable Set

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(Attribute attribute)
                  throws NamingException

This sets this LdapAttribute using the supplied attribute.

Specified by:

setAttribute in interface LdapAttribute

Parameters:

attribute - Attribute

Throws:

NamingException - if the attribute values cannot be read

setName

public void setName(String name)

This sets the name of this LdapAttribute.

Specified by:

setName in interface LdapAttribute

Parameters:

name - String

hashCode

public int hashCode()

This returns the hash code for this object.

Specified by:

hashCode in class AbstractLdapBean

Returns:

int

toString

public String toString()

This returns a string representation of this object.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

String

toAttribute

public Attribute toAttribute()

This returns an Attribute that represents the values in this LdapAttribute.

Specified by:

toAttribute in interface LdapAttribute

Returns:

Attribute

convertValuesToString

protected void convertValuesToString(Set<String> stringValues)

Converts the underlying set of objects to a set of strings. Objects of type byte[] are base64 encoded. Objects which are not of type String or byte[] are converted using Object.toString().

Parameters:

stringValues - Set to populate with strings