com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service

Interface IRepositoryService

All Known Subinterfaces:

IDiscussionManager, ILayoutService, IStatemanagementManager, ISubscriptionManager, ITimebasedPublishServiceManager

public interface IRepositoryService

A repository service implements additional functionalities for repositories, e.g. subscription and indexing/searching. In general, a repository service is independent of a specific repository implementation. Services can subscribe for events of repository managers, to be informed about state changes of resources.

Method Summary

String	acceptServletCall(Properties properties, IResourceContext context) This method is called by the eServiceServlet to perform some action.
String	getDescription() Returns a description for this service.
String	getDescription(Locale locale) Returns a description for this service.
String	getID() Returns a service identifier, unique for this instance.
String	getServiceType() Deprecated. As of EP 5.0 SP5, The "service type" is the name of the configurable class.

Method Detail

getServiceType

public String getServiceType()

Deprecated. As of EP 5.0 SP5, The "service type" is the name of the configurable class.

Get the service's service type, as defined in IWcmConfig.

Returns:

The service type constant for this service.

getID

public String getID()

Returns a service identifier, unique for this instance.

Returns:

a service identifier, unique for this instance.

getDescription

public String getDescription()

Returns a description for this service.

Returns:

a description for this service.

getDescription

public String getDescription(Locale locale)

Returns a description for this service.

Parameters:

locale - TBD: Description of the incoming method parameter

Returns:

a description for this service.

acceptServletCall

public String acceptServletCall(Properties properties,
                                IResourceContext context)
                         throws ServiceCallException,
                                ResourceException

This method is called by the eServiceServlet to perform some action.

Parameters:

properties - TBD: Description of the incoming method parameter

context - TBD: Description of the incoming method parameter

Returns:

The message to show on the servlet

Throws:

ServiceCallException - Exception raised in failure situation

ResourceException - Exception raised in failure situation