org.jasig.services.persondir
Interface IPersonAttributes

All Superinterfaces:

Principal, Serializable

public interface IPersonAttributes
extends Principal, Serializable

An immutable representation of a person with a uid (userName) and attributes. A user's attributes can be of any type and can be multi-valued. Principal.getName() is used for the uid (userName). The equality and hashCode of an IPersonAttributes should ONLY include the name property and none of the attributes.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Eric Dalquist

Method Summary

Map<String,List<Object>>	getAttributes()
Object	getAttributeValue(String name) The value for the attribute, null if no value exists or the first value is null, if there are multiple values the first is returned.
List<Object>	getAttributeValues(String name) All values of the attribute, null if no values exist.

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

equals, getName, hashCode, toString

Method Detail

getAttributes

Map<String,List<Object>> getAttributes()

Returns:

The immutable Map of all attributes for the person.

getAttributeValue

Object getAttributeValue(String name)

The value for the attribute, null if no value exists or the first value is null, if there are multiple values the first is returned.

Parameters:

name - The name of the attribute to get the value for

Returns:

The first value for the attribute

getAttributeValues

List<Object> getAttributeValues(String name)

All values of the attribute, null if no values exist.

Parameters:

name - The name of the attribute to get the values for

Returns:

All values for the attribute