com.adventnet.nms.store
Interface DBExtendedInterface

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, DBInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

Alert, CORBANode, Event, InputEvent, IpAddress, ManagedGroupObject, ManagedObject, MapContainer, MapDB, MapGroup, MapLink, MapSymbol, MultiplePolledData, Network, Node, PeriodicPolicyObject, PolicyObject, PolledData, SnmpInterface, SnmpNode, TL1Interface, TL1Node, TopoObject

public interface DBExtendedInterface
extends DBInterface

This interface gives the flexibilty of having additional properties being stored along with the fields .In case of Serialization it does not make any change but in the database , it is necessary for storing these so called user Properties in the database

Method Summary

java.util.Properties	getUserProperties() This should return a Properties object .
java.lang.String	getUserProperty(java.lang.String nam)
java.lang.String	removeUserProperty(java.lang.String nam)
void	setUserProperty(java.lang.String nam, java.lang.String val) To set any additional user property during runtime .

Methods inherited from interface com.adventnet.nms.store.DBInterface

clone, getKey, getKeyName, getProperties, setProperties

Method Detail

getUserProperties

java.util.Properties getUserProperties()

This should return a Properties object . Note it should not return any properties which are fields in the object.It should return those which say are added during runtime in a Hashtable or Properties member field of the object.

setUserProperty

void setUserProperty(java.lang.String nam,
                     java.lang.String val)

To set any additional user property during runtime . Internally it might be stored in a Hashtable or Properties member But should be available from the getUserProperties and getUserProperty methods

getUserProperty

java.lang.String getUserProperty(java.lang.String nam)

removeUserProperty

java.lang.String removeUserProperty(java.lang.String nam)