com.sapportals.wcm.repository.filter

Interface INamespaceFilter

All Superinterfaces:

IFilter

public interface INamespaceFilter

extends IFilter

A namespace filter will be applied on namespace operations like getResource(), getChildren(). Example: It can remove or add resource to the list of children of a collection.

Method Summary

IResourceList	filter() Returns the filtered resource list.
ICollection	getCollection() Returns the collection if the filter is applied on getChilden().

Method Detail

getCollection

public ICollection getCollection()
                          throws WcmException

Returns the collection if the filter is applied on getChilden(). Returns null if the filter is applied for getResource() or search().

Returns:

The collection value

Throws:

WcmException - Description of the Exception

filter

public IResourceList filter()
                     throws WcmException

Returns the filtered resource list. A filter implementation must never return null or a new empty list. If the filter will not change the list or encounters an error it must return the list returned by the predecessor filter's filter() method. If the predecessor's filter() method throws an exception this exception should not be catched (or catched and re-thrown).

Returns:

The filtered resource list

Throws:

WcmException