org.dspace.browse

Interface BrowseItemDAO

All Known Implementing Classes:

BrowseItemDAOOracle, BrowseItemDAOPostgres

public interface BrowseItemDAO

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
BrowseItem[]	findAll() Get an array of all the items in the database
DCValue[]	queryMetadata(int itemId, java.lang.String schema, java.lang.String element, java.lang.String qualifier, java.lang.String lang) perform a database query to obtain the string array of values corresponding to the passed parameters.

Method Detail

findAll

BrowseItem[] findAll()
                     throws java.sql.SQLException

Get an array of all the items in the database

Returns:

array of items

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException

queryMetadata

DCValue[] queryMetadata(int itemId,
                      java.lang.String schema,
                      java.lang.String element,
                      java.lang.String qualifier,
                      java.lang.String lang)
                        throws java.sql.SQLException

perform a database query to obtain the string array of values corresponding to the passed parameters. In general you should use: getMetadata(schema, element, qualifier, lang); As this will obtain the value from cache if available first.

Parameters:

itemId -

schema -

element -

qualifier -

lang -

Returns:

matching metadata values.

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException