com.novell.application.console.snapin

Interface NamespaceSnapinRev2

All Known Subinterfaces:

AdminNamespace, LDAPNamespace, NDSNamespace

public interface NamespaceSnapinRev2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ObjectEntry[]	getInitialObjectEntries(ObjectEntry entry, com.novell.application.console.snapin.context.GetChildrenContext getChildrenContext) Returns the root ObjectEntry array.
ObjectEntry	getObjectEntry(ObjectEntry entry, java.lang.String name) Returns an ObjectEntry represented by a name relative to a parent ObjectEntry.

Method Detail

getInitialObjectEntries

ObjectEntry[] getInitialObjectEntries(ObjectEntry entry,
                                      com.novell.application.console.snapin.context.GetChildrenContext getChildrenContext)
                               throws SnapinException

Returns the root ObjectEntry array. This is called by ConsoleOne instead of the other getInitialObjectEntries() when the Namespace is registered to a placeholder or to another Namespace.

Parameters:

entry - An ObjectEntry representing the placeholder or an ObjectEntry from the parent namespace which this call should return children for.

getChildrenContext - Context information for this call.

Throws:

SnapinException - Thrown when a service provider error occured.

getObjectEntry

ObjectEntry getObjectEntry(ObjectEntry entry,
                           java.lang.String name)
                    throws SnapinException

Returns an ObjectEntry represented by a name relative to a parent ObjectEntry.

Parameters:

entry - The parent ObjectEntry.

name - The name of the object (e.g myOrg/me).

Returns:

The ObjectEntry specified by the name parameter.

Throws:

SnapinException - Thrown when a service provider error occured.