com.sapportals.wcm.repository.service.statemanagement

Interface IApprover

public interface IApprover

This interface represents an approver. The approver has an ID which comes from user management. The approver can be a user, a group, or a role. The approver is identified by an ID and an assigned step. An approver must be unique within the approver list for a ressource.

Method Summary

com.sapportals.portal.security.usermanagement.IUser	getActApprover() Gets the user who has approved or rejected a resource If a group or a role is used as an approver, only one actual user can approve or reject a resource.
IApproverPrincipal	getActApproverPrincipal() Gets the user who has approved or rejected a resource If a group or a role is used as an approver, only one actual user can approve or reject a resource.
String	getApproverString() Returns the attributes of the IApprover object as a string to enable persistent storage This method can be used to serialize the approver object.
String	getDisplayName() Gets the name of the approver for the user interface Returns a display name for this approver to be used in the user interface.
String	getIcon() Gets the icon of the approver for the user interface The different types of principals (user, group, and role) are represented by different icons.
String	getKey() Gets the unique key of the user in the approver list It should be possible to instantiate an approver with this key.
IApproverPrincipal	getPrincipal() Gets a wrapper class for the principal as used in user management In the approval workflow, a wrapper class for the user management's principal is used to provide an abstraction from the usermanagement and to handle null users.
Boolean	hasApproved() Checks whether the approver has approved the current resource.
boolean	isSelected() Checks whether the approver is selected in the approver list.
void	setApproved(Boolean impApproved, String impUserId) Indicates whether the user has approved or rejected the current resource
void	setApproverString(String impApproverString) Restores the IApprover object from a string as returned by getApproverString().
void	setSelected(boolean impSelected) Selects the approver in the approver list This method is used to mark an approver as selected.

Method Detail

getKey

public String getKey()

Gets the unique key of the user in the approver list It should be possible to instantiate an approver with this key. Two approvers are considered to be the same if their key are the same.

Returns:

the unique key of the user

getPrincipal

public IApproverPrincipal getPrincipal()

Gets a wrapper class for the principal as used in user management In the approval workflow, a wrapper class for the user management's principal is used to provide an abstraction from the usermanagement and to handle null users.

Returns:

the principal

getActApprover

public com.sapportals.portal.security.usermanagement.IUser getActApprover()

Gets the user who has approved or rejected a resource If a group or a role is used as an approver, only one actual user can approve or reject a resource. This user is returned via this method. Null is returned if the approval has not yet taken place.

Returns:

the actApprover value

getActApproverPrincipal

public IApproverPrincipal getActApproverPrincipal()

Gets the user who has approved or rejected a resource If a group or a role is used as an approver, only one actual user can approve or reject a resource. This user is returned via this method. Null is returned if the approval has not yet taken place. In contrast to getActApprover() the user is returned as IApproverPrincipal , which is a wrapper around the IUser . This wrapper provides, for example, a backup for the getDisplayName() method.

Returns:

the actApprover value

getDisplayName

public String getDisplayName()

Gets the name of the approver for the user interface Returns a display name for this approver to be used in the user interface.

Returns:

the displayName value

getIcon

public String getIcon()

Gets the icon of the approver for the user interface The different types of principals (user, group, and role) are represented by different icons. The correct icon for the type of approver is returned via this method and can be used in the user interface.

Returns:

the icon value

isSelected

public boolean isSelected()

Checks whether the approver is selected in the approver list. The approver is normally used in the approver list in the user interface. The approver can be selected here and actions carried out on it.

Returns:

true if approver is selected.

setSelected

public void setSelected(boolean impSelected)

Selects the approver in the approver list This method is used to mark an approver as selected.

Parameters:

impSelected - true to select the approver

hasApproved

public Boolean hasApproved()

Checks whether the approver has approved the current resource.

Returns:

null if the approver has not responded, true if the approver has approved the resource, false if the approver has rejected the resource

setApproved

public void setApproved(Boolean impApproved,
                        String impUserId)

Indicates whether the user has approved or rejected the current resource

Parameters:

impApproved - true if approver has approved the resource, false if approver has rejected the resource

impUserId - user who has approved or rejected the resource

getApproverString

public String getApproverString()

Returns the attributes of the IApprover object as a string to enable persistent storage This method can be used to serialize the approver object. The returned string can be used to restore the current state of the approver object with the method setApproverString() . This method can be used to persist the current approver object in an html page.

Returns:

The approverString value

setApproverString

public void setApproverString(String impApproverString)
                       throws WcmException

Restores the IApprover object from a string as returned by getApproverString(). With this method the complete state of the object can be restored. Passing null as impApproverString causes an exception.

Parameters:

impApproverString - the approverString value

Throws:

WcmException - if the object can not be instantiated