com.neeve.discovery

Interface IDiscoveryProvider

public interface IDiscoveryProvider

Represents an entity discovery provider.

This interface identifies a discovery provider. Each discovery provider plug-in implements this interface.

Threading:

A discovery provider is not safe for concurrent access by multiple threads.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IDiscoveryCache	createCache(UtlAddressDescriptor descriptor, int flags) Create the discovery cache.
String	getName() Get the provider name

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Get the provider name

createCache

IDiscoveryCache createCache(UtlAddressDescriptor descriptor,
                          int flags)
                            throws EDiscoveryException

Create the discovery cache.

Parameters:

descriptor - The cache descriptor (provider specific) used to create the cache.

flags - Flags tha qualify the creation of the cache. The following flags are currently supported
- DiscoveryCacheFactory.FLG_NO_AUTOOPEN

Throws:

EDiscoveryException - Thrown in case an error occurs during the creation of the cache.

Threading:

This method is not safe for concurrent access by multiple threads.