org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.capabilities
Interface Inputable

All Superinterfaces:

EntityProvider, Formats, Sampleable

All Known Subinterfaces:

InputTranslatable, RESTful

public interface Inputable
extends EntityProvider, Formats, Sampleable

These entities can be entered as certain input formats which are handled automatically and translated into entity objects (of the type defined by Sampleable)
If you want to define the way the input is translated instead of using the internal methods then use InputTranslatable

NOTE: By default all entity view requests go through to the available access providers: EntityViewAccessProvider or HttpServletAccessProvider

Author:

Aaron Zeckoski (aaron@caret.cam.ac.uk)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.extension.Formats

ALL_KNOWN_FORMATS, ATOM, ATOM_EXTENSIONS, ATOM_MIME_TYPE, FORM, FORM_EXTENSIONS, FORM_MIME_TYPE, HTML, HTML_EXTENSIONS, HTML_MIME_TYPE, JSON, JSON_EXTENSIONS, JSON_MIME_TYPE, JSONP, JSONP_EXTENSIONS, JSONP_MIME_TYPE, RSS, RSS_EXTENSIONS, RSS_MIME_TYPE, TXT, TXT_EXTENSIONS, TXT_MIME_TYPE, UTF_8, XML, XML_EXTENSIONS, XML_MIME_TYPE

Method Summary

String[]

getHandledInputFormats() Defines the input format types (extensions) handled by this provider NOTE: In the case of an entity view the extension which goes on the end of an entity URL (after a ".") indicates the input type WARNING: not including Formats.HTML in the return will stop all redirects to the access providers and therefore will cause HTML requests for entities to go nowhere

Methods inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.capabilities.Sampleable

getSampleEntity

Methods inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.EntityProvider

getEntityPrefix

Method Detail

getHandledInputFormats

String[] getHandledInputFormats()

Defines the input format types (extensions) handled by this provider
NOTE: In the case of an entity view the extension which goes on the end of an entity URL (after a ".") indicates the input type
WARNING: not including Formats.HTML in the return will stop all redirects to the access providers and therefore will cause HTML requests for entities to go nowhere

Returns:

an array containing the extension formats (from Formats) handled, use the constants (example: Formats.XML) or feel free to make up your own if you like