org.dspace.eperson.service

Interface SupervisorService

All Known Implementing Classes:

SupervisorServiceImpl

public interface SupervisorService

Class to represent the supervisor, primarily for use in applying supervisor activities to the database, such as setting and unsetting supervision orders and so forth.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Richard Jones

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static int	POLICY_EDITOR value to use for editor policies
static int	POLICY_NONE value to use for no policy set
static int	POLICY_OBSERVER value to use for observer policies

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	add(Context context, Group group, WorkspaceItem workspaceItem, int policy) adds a supervision order to the database
boolean	isOrder(Context context, WorkspaceItem workspaceItem, Group group) finds out if there is a supervision order that matches this set of values
void	remove(Context context, WorkspaceItem workspaceItem, Group group) removes the requested group from the requested workspace item in terms of supervision.

Field Detail

POLICY_NONE

static final int POLICY_NONE

value to use for no policy set

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Constant Field Values

POLICY_EDITOR

static final int POLICY_EDITOR

value to use for editor policies

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Constant Field Values

POLICY_OBSERVER

static final int POLICY_OBSERVER

value to use for observer policies

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

isOrder

boolean isOrder(Context context,
                WorkspaceItem workspaceItem,
                Group group)
         throws SQLException

finds out if there is a supervision order that matches this set of values

Parameters:

context - the context this object exists in

workspaceItem - the workspace item to be supervised

group - the group to be doing the supervising

Returns:

boolean true if there is an order that matches, false if not

Throws:

SQLException

remove

void remove(Context context,
            WorkspaceItem workspaceItem,
            Group group)
     throws SQLException,
            AuthorizeException

removes the requested group from the requested workspace item in terms of supervision. This also removes all the policies that group has associated with the item

Parameters:

context - the context this object exists in

workspaceItem - the ID of the workspace item

group - the ID of the group to be removed from the item

Throws:

SQLException

AuthorizeException

add

void add(Context context,
         Group group,
         WorkspaceItem workspaceItem,
         int policy)
  throws SQLException,
         AuthorizeException

adds a supervision order to the database

Parameters:

context - the context this object exists in

group - the ID of the group which will supervise

workspaceItem - the ID of the workspace item to be supervised

policy - String containing the policy type to be used

Throws:

SQLException

AuthorizeException