com.novell.admin.ns.fs
Class FSSchemaDefinition

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.novell.admin.ns.SchemaDefinition
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        +--com.novell.admin.ns.DefaultSchemaDefinition
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              +--com.novell.admin.ns.fs.FSSchemaDefinition

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

NWFSSchemaDefinition

public class FSSchemaDefinition

extends DefaultSchemaDefinition

This class models the entire File System schema.

The FS schema is not modifiable.

Fields inherited from class com.novell.admin.ns.SchemaDefinition

attributes, classes

Constructor Summary

FSSchemaDefinition()
Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	canContain(java.lang.String parentClass, java.lang.String childClass) Test if objects of one class type may contain objects of another class type.
ClassDefinition[]	getContainmentClasses(java.lang.String className) Retrieve ALL containment classes for a specific class type.

Methods inherited from class com.novell.admin.ns.DefaultSchemaDefinition

equals, getAttributeDefinition, getAttributeDefinitions, getAuxiliaryClassDefinitions, getClassDefinition, getClassDefinitions, getClassesUsingAttribute, getEffectiveClasses, getNumberOfAttributes, getNumberOfClasses, isAttributeDefined, isClassDefined

Methods inherited from class com.novell.admin.ns.SchemaDefinition

clone

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FSSchemaDefinition

public FSSchemaDefinition()

Constructor.

This constructor should NOT be used by applications. Applications should get the schema definition from the SchemaService implementation class.

Parameters:

schema - The File System Schema Service class that factoried this.

Method Detail

canContain

public boolean canContain(java.lang.String parentClass,
                          java.lang.String childClass)

Test if objects of one class type may contain objects of another class type.

Parameters:

parentClass - The name of the parent class type.

childClass - The name of the child class type.

Returns:

true if object based on the parent class type can contain object based on the child class type, false otherwise.

Overrides:

canContain in class DefaultSchemaDefinition

getContainmentClasses

public ClassDefinition[] getContainmentClasses(java.lang.String className)
                                        throws NamespaceException

Retrieve ALL containment classes for a specific class type.

The class definitions returned are in unexpanded form.

Parameters:

className - Name of the class in question.

Returns:

An array of ClassDefinition objects representing those classes that may contain the class named by 'className'.

Throws:

NamespaceException - Refer to NamespaceException documentation.

Overrides:

getContainmentClasses in class DefaultSchemaDefinition