anon.infoservice

Class AbstractIDEntry

java.lang.Object

anon.infoservice.AbstractDatabaseEntry

anon.infoservice.AbstractIDEntry

Direct Known Subclasses:

InfoServiceIDEntry

public abstract class AbstractIDEntry
extends AbstractDatabaseEntry

This is used to store the IDs of recently added database entries, so that they are not added several times after they have expired.

Author:

Rolf Wendolsky

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class anon.infoservice.AbstractDatabaseEntry

XML_ATTR_LAST_UPDATE, XML_LAST_UPDATE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractIDEntry(AbstractDatabaseEntry a_entry, long a_expireTime)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getId() Returns a unique ID for a database entry.
long	getLastUpdate() Returns the time in milliseconds when this db entry was created from the origin instance.
long	getVersionNumber() Returns version number which is used to determine the more recent infoservice entry, if two entries are compared (higher version number -> more recent entry).

Methods inherited from class anon.infoservice.AbstractDatabaseEntry

deletePersistence, getCreationTime, getExpireTime, isNewerThan, isPersistanceDeletionAllowed, isUserDefined, resetCreationTime, setExpireTime

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractIDEntry

public AbstractIDEntry(AbstractDatabaseEntry a_entry,
                       long a_expireTime)

Method Detail

getLastUpdate

public long getLastUpdate()

Description copied from class: AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns the time in milliseconds when this db entry was created from the origin instance. Never (!) insert the local creation time here, as this will DoS the InfoServices in an endless loop.

Specified by:

getLastUpdate in class AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns:

the time in milliseconds when this db entry was created from the origin instance

getVersionNumber

public long getVersionNumber()

Description copied from class: AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns version number which is used to determine the more recent infoservice entry, if two entries are compared (higher version number -> more recent entry). Never (!) insert the local creation time here, as this will DoS the InfoServices in an endless loop.

Specified by:

getVersionNumber in class AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns:

The version number for this entry.

getId

public java.lang.String getId()

Description copied from class: AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns a unique ID for a database entry.

Specified by:

getId in class AbstractDatabaseEntry

Returns:

The ID of this database entry.