org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi
Interface ItemManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

ItemManagerImpl

public interface ItemManager

There's one ItemManager instance per Session instance. It is the factory for Node and Property instances.

The ItemManager's responsabilities are:

• providing access to Item instances by ItemState whereas Node and Item are only providing relative access.
• returning the instance of an existing Node or Property, given its absolute path.
• creating the per-session instance of a Node or Property that doesn't exist yet and needs to be created first.
• guaranteeing that there aren't multiple instances representing the same Node or Property associated with the same Session instance.
• maintaining a cache of the item instances it created.

If the parent Session is an XASession, there is one ItemManager instance per started global transaction.

Method Summary

void	dispose() Disposes this ItemManager and frees resources.
NodeIterator	getChildNodes(NodeEntry parentEntry)
PropertyIterator	getChildProperties(NodeEntry parentEntry)
Item	getItem(HierarchyEntry hierarchyEntry)
Node	getNode(Path path)
Property	getProperty(Path path)
boolean	hasChildNodes(NodeEntry parentEntry)
boolean	hasChildProperties(NodeEntry parentEntry)
boolean	itemExists(HierarchyEntry hierarchyEntry) Checks if the item for given HierarchyEntry exists.
boolean	nodeExists(Path path) Checks if the node with the given path exists.
boolean	propertyExists(Path path) Checks if the property with the given path exists.

Method Detail

dispose

void dispose()

Disposes this ItemManager and frees resources.

nodeExists

boolean nodeExists(Path path)

Checks if the node with the given path exists.

Parameters:

path - path to the node to be checked

Returns:

true if the specified item exists

propertyExists

boolean propertyExists(Path path)

Checks if the property with the given path exists.

Parameters:

path - path to the property to be checked

Returns:

true if the specified item exists

itemExists

boolean itemExists(HierarchyEntry hierarchyEntry)

Checks if the item for given HierarchyEntry exists.

Parameters:

hierarchyEntry -

Returns:

true if the specified item exists

getNode

Node getNode(Path path)
             throws PathNotFoundException,
                    RepositoryException

Parameters:

path -

Returns:

Throws:

PathNotFoundException

RepositoryException

getProperty

Property getProperty(Path path)
                     throws PathNotFoundException,
                            RepositoryException

Parameters:

path -

Returns:

Throws:

PathNotFoundException

RepositoryException

getItem

Item getItem(HierarchyEntry hierarchyEntry)
             throws ItemNotFoundException,
                    RepositoryException

Parameters:

hierarchyEntry -

Returns:

Throws:

ItemNotFoundException

RepositoryException

hasChildNodes

boolean hasChildNodes(NodeEntry parentEntry)
                      throws ItemNotFoundException,
                             RepositoryException

Parameters:

parentEntry -

Returns:

Throws:

ItemNotFoundException

RepositoryException

getChildNodes

NodeIterator getChildNodes(NodeEntry parentEntry)
                           throws ItemNotFoundException,
                                  RepositoryException

Parameters:

parentEntry -

Returns:

Throws:

ItemNotFoundException

RepositoryException

hasChildProperties

boolean hasChildProperties(NodeEntry parentEntry)
                           throws ItemNotFoundException,
                                  RepositoryException

Parameters:

parentEntry -

Returns:

Throws:

ItemNotFoundException

RepositoryException

getChildProperties

PropertyIterator getChildProperties(NodeEntry parentEntry)
                                    throws ItemNotFoundException,
                                           RepositoryException

Parameters:

parentEntry -

Returns:

Throws:

ItemNotFoundException

RepositoryException