org.jasig.services.persondir.support

Class CascadingPersonAttributeDao

java.lang.Object

org.jasig.services.persondir.support.BasePersonAttributeDao

org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractFlatteningPersonAttributeDao

org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractDefaultAttributePersonAttributeDao

org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao

org.jasig.services.persondir.support.CascadingPersonAttributeDao

All Implemented Interfaces:

IPersonAttributeDao

public class CascadingPersonAttributeDao
extends AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao

This IPersonAttributeDao implementation iterates through an ordered List of IPersonAttributeDao impls when getting user attributes.
The first DAO is queried using the seed Map passed to this class. The results of the query are merged into a general result map. After the first DAO this general result map used as the query seed for each DAO and each DAO's results are merged into it.

• If the first DAO returned null/no results and stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull=true, no subsequent DAO is called and null is the final result.
• If the first DAO returned null/no results and stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull=false, each subsequent DAO is called and the first that returns a result is used as the seed to the remaining child DAOs. This is the default to support legacy behavior.

This behavior allows a DAO lower on the list to rely on attributes returned by a DAO higher on the list.
The default merger for the general result set is ReplacingAttributeAdder.
Example Use case: Query LDAP for values (LDAP is first DAO), and then feed results into a secondary source such as an SIS system that has a different key than username and LDAP provides the key for the SIS query.
Note that most DAOs expect a Map of String->String. Some of the DAOs return a Map of String->Object or String->List. This may cause problems in the DAO if the key for an attribute with a non String value matches a key needed by the DAO for the query it is running.
It is highly recommended that the first DAO on the list for this class is the EchoPersonAttributeDaoImpl to ensure the seed gets placed into the general result map.

Since:

uPortal 2.5

Version:

$Revision$ $Date$

Author:

Eric Dalquist

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao

attrMerger, personAttributeDaos, recoverExceptions, stopOnSuccess

Fields inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.BasePersonAttributeDao

logger

Fields inherited from interface org.jasig.services.persondir.IPersonAttributeDao

WILDCARD, WILDCARD_PATTERN

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CascadingPersonAttributeDao()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Set<IPersonAttributes>	getAttributesFromDao(Map<String,List<Object>> seed, boolean isFirstQuery, IPersonAttributeDao currentlyConsidering, Set<IPersonAttributes> resultPeople) If this is the first call, or there are no results in the resultPeople Set and stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull=false, the seed map is used.
void	setStopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull(boolean stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull)

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao

getAvailableQueryAttributes, getMerger, getPeopleWithMultivaluedAttributes, getPersonAttributeDaos, getPossibleUserAttributeNames, isRecoverExceptions, isStopOnSuccess, setMerger, setPersonAttributeDaos, setRecoverExceptions, setStopOnSuccess

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractDefaultAttributePersonAttributeDao

getPerson, getUsernameAttributeProvider, setUsernameAttributeProvider, toSeedMap

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.AbstractFlatteningPersonAttributeDao

getPeople, toMultivaluedSeed

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.BasePersonAttributeDao

flattenResults, getMultivaluedUserAttributes, getMultivaluedUserAttributes, getUserAttributes, getUserAttributes

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CascadingPersonAttributeDao

public CascadingPersonAttributeDao()

Method Detail

setStopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull

public void setStopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull(boolean stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull)

getAttributesFromDao

protected Set<IPersonAttributes> getAttributesFromDao(Map<String,List<Object>> seed,
                                          boolean isFirstQuery,
                                          IPersonAttributeDao currentlyConsidering,
                                          Set<IPersonAttributes> resultPeople)

If this is the first call, or there are no results in the resultPeople Set and stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull=false, the seed map is used. If not the attributes of the first user in the resultPeople Set are used for each child dao. If stopIfFirstDaoReturnsNull=true and the first query returned no results in the resultPeopleSet, return null.

Specified by:

getAttributesFromDao in class AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao

Parameters:

seed - The seed for the original query.

isFirstQuery - If this is the first query, this will stay true until a call to this method returns (does not throw an exception).

currentlyConsidering - The IPersonAttributeDao to execute the query on.

Returns:

The results from the call to the DAO, follows the same rules as IPersonAttributeDao.getUserAttributes(Map).

See Also:

AbstractAggregatingDefaultQueryPersonAttributeDao.getAttributesFromDao(java.util.Map, boolean, org.jasig.services.persondir.IPersonAttributeDao, java.util.Set)