org.dspace.browse
Class BrowseEngine

java.lang.Object
  org.dspace.browse.BrowseEngine

public class BrowseEngine
extends Object

This class does most of the actual grunt work of preparing a browse result. It takes in to a couple of available methods (depending on your desired browse type) a BrowserScope object, and uses this to produce a BrowseInfo object which is sufficient to describe to the User Interface the results of the requested browse

Author:

Richard Jones

Constructor Summary

BrowseEngine(Context context)
Create a new instance of the Browse engine, using the given DSpace Context object.

Method Summary

BrowseInfo	browse(BrowserScope bs) Perform a standard browse, which will return a BrowseInfo object that represents the results for the current page, the total number of results, the range, and information to construct previous and next links on any web page
BrowseInfo	browseMini(BrowserScope bs) Perform a limited browse, which only returns the results requested, without any extraneous information.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BrowseEngine

public BrowseEngine(Context context)
             throws BrowseException

Create a new instance of the Browse engine, using the given DSpace Context object. This will automatically assign a Data Access Object for the Browse Engine, based on the dspace.cfg setting for db.name

Parameters:

context - the DSpace context

Throws:

BrowseException

Method Detail

browse

public BrowseInfo browse(BrowserScope bs)
                  throws BrowseException

Perform a standard browse, which will return a BrowseInfo object that represents the results for the current page, the total number of results, the range, and information to construct previous and next links on any web page

Parameters:

bs - the scope of the browse

Returns:

the results of the browse

Throws:

BrowseException

browseMini

public BrowseInfo browseMini(BrowserScope bs)
                      throws BrowseException

Perform a limited browse, which only returns the results requested, without any extraneous information. To perform a full browse, use BrowseEngine.browse() above. This supports Item browse only, and does not currently support focus or values. This method is used, for example, to generate the Recently Submitted Items results.

Parameters:

bs - the scope of the browse

Returns:

the results of the browse

Throws:

BrowseException