org.jasig.portal
Interface ISequenceGenerator

All Superinterfaces:

IOIDGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ReferenceSequenceGenerator

Deprecated. use ICounterStore instead

@Deprecated
public interface ISequenceGenerator
extends IOIDGenerator

An interface for returning sequences derived from named counters. The following methods are devoted to creating and using these counters, which can be used as oids.

createCounter(String name) getNextInt() getNextInt(String name) setCounter(String name)

ISequenceGenerator inherits the following more general methods from IOIDGenerator, which return Strings:

getNext() getNext(String name)

Version:

$Revision: 19776 $

Author:

Dan Ellentuck

Method Summary

void	createCounter(String name) Deprecated.
int	getNextInt() Deprecated.
int	getNextInt(String name) Deprecated.
void	setCounter(String name, int newValue) Deprecated.

Methods inherited from interface org.jasig.portal.IOIDGenerator

getNext, getNext

Method Detail

createCounter

void createCounter(String name)
                   throws Exception

Deprecated.

Parameters:

name - java.lang.String

Throws:

Exception

getNextInt

int getNextInt()
               throws Exception

Deprecated.

Returns:

int

Throws:

Exception - The exception description.

getNextInt

int getNextInt(String name)
               throws Exception

Deprecated.

Parameters:

name - java.lang.String

Returns:

int

Throws:

Exception - The exception description.

setCounter

void setCounter(String name,
                int newValue)
                throws Exception

Deprecated.

Parameters:

name - java.lang.String

newValue - int

Throws:

Exception