MetadataContributor (DSpace Kernel :: API and Implementation 7.1.1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArXivIdMetadataContributor, CombinedMetadatumContributor, EnhancedSimpleMetadataContributor, MultipleMetadataContributor, PubmedDateMetadatumContributor, PubmedLanguageMetadatumContributor, SimpleMetadataContributor, SimpleXpathMetadatumContributor
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public interface MetadataContributor<RecordType>
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Author:

Roeland Dillen (roeland at atmire dot com)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Collection<MetadatumDTO>`	`contributeMetadata(RecordType t)`	Implementations have the responsibility to process/map their own type of metadata based on a given record and return a collection of the generalised MetadatumDTO objects
`void`	`setMetadataFieldMapping(MetadataFieldMapping<RecordType,MetadataContributor<RecordType>> rt)`	Set the metadataFieldMapping

- Method Detail
  - setMetadataFieldMapping
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void setMetadataFieldMapping(MetadataFieldMapping<RecordType,MetadataContributor<RecordType>> rt)
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    Set the metadataFieldMapping
    
    Parameters:
    
    rt - the MetadataFieldMapping object to set to the MetadataContributor
  - contributeMetadata
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Collection<MetadatumDTO> contributeMetadata(RecordType t)
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    Implementations have the responsibility to process/map their own type of metadata based on a given record and return a collection of the generalised MetadatumDTO objects
    
    Parameters:
    
    t - The recordType object to retrieve metadata from
    
    Returns:
    
    A collection of MetadatumDTO objects, retrieve from the recordtype