com.pow2.user.dao
Class UserDAOFactory

java.lang.Object
  com.pow2.user.dao.UserDAOFactory

public class UserDAOFactory

extends Object

"Creator" class for UserDAO objects.

Author:

Luca Fossato

Field Summary

static String	KEY_USER_DATA_PROVIDER user dao provider key
static String	USER_DATA_PROVIDER_LDAP LDAP user dao provider
static String	USER_DATA_PROVIDER_RDBMS RDBMS user dao provider

Method Summary

String	getProviderType() Get the current User data provider type, asspecified by the Prefs object.
UserDAO	getUserDAO() Return an UserDAO object whose subclass is specified by the defaultProvider member attribute.
UserDAO	getUserDAO(int provider) Return an UserDAO object whose subclass is specified by the input provider parameter.
static UserDAOFactory	instance() Get the unique instance of UserDAOFactory class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

KEY_USER_DATA_PROVIDER

public static final String KEY_USER_DATA_PROVIDER

user dao provider key

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Constant Field Values

USER_DATA_PROVIDER_RDBMS

public static final String USER_DATA_PROVIDER_RDBMS

RDBMS user dao provider

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Constant Field Values

USER_DATA_PROVIDER_LDAP

public static final String USER_DATA_PROVIDER_LDAP

LDAP user dao provider

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

instance

public static UserDAOFactory instance()

Get the unique instance of UserDAOFactory class.

Returns:

the instance of UserDAOFactory class

getUserDAO

public UserDAO getUserDAO()

Return an UserDAO object whose subclass is specified by the defaultProvider member attribute.

getUserDAO

public UserDAO getUserDAO(int provider)

Return an UserDAO object whose subclass is specified by the input provider parameter.

Parameters:

provider - specifies the UserDAO class type.

Returns:

the selected userDAO instance, or null if the input provider parameter doesn't match an UserDAO subclass.
Supported provider constants are:

• PROVIDER_RDBMS to use rdbms data access
• PROVIDER_LDAP to use ldap data access

getProviderType

public String getProviderType()

Get the current User data provider type, asspecified by the Prefs object.

Returns:

the User data provider type