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com.RuntimeCollective.webapps.bean
Interface Actor

All Superinterfaces:: EntityBean, java.io.Serializable, User

All Known Implementing Classes:: SimpleActor

public interface Actor
extends User

Abstract class for all objects that wrap a registered user of a Runtime Webapp.

Different modules will want to add to the properties of a basic User: the school module has Students and Staff, the content management system will have Authors etc. Each of these should be implemented as wrappers of User that implement this Actor interface.

There are three ways of getting an Actor:

If you have an existing User and want to 'promote' them to an Actor then construct a new actor using RuntimeParameters.getStore().create, and set the User with setUser.
If there is an existing actor in the DB for which you have the id, then get it using RuntimeParameters.getStore().get -- this will fill in the wrapped user as required.
If there is an existing actor in the DB, but you only have the User that it wraps, then get it using getActorForUser().

An Actor should act like any other EntityBean. In particular it must implement the two constructors:

Actor() -- should generate a new Actor with a new unique ID, though the underlying user should remain null.
Actor(int id) -- should get an existing Actor from the database for this ID. It should also get the corresponding User from the RuntimeParameters.getStore().

And, as with all other EntityBeans, these constructors should never be called directly but only via the RuntimeParameters.getStore().

Version:: $Id: Actor.java,v 1.5 2003/09/30 15:13:08 joe Exp $

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.RuntimeCollective.webapps.bean.User

DATABASE_TABLE

Fields inherited from interface com.RuntimeCollective.webapps.bean.EntityBean

INTERFACE_BEAN, NULL_ID

Method Summary

java.lang.Object getAttribute(java.lang.String name)
          Get the value of an attribute.

User getUser()
          Get the User that this Actor wraps.

void setAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value)
          Set the value of an attribute.

void setUser(User user)
          Set the User that this Actor wraps.

Methods inherited from interface com.RuntimeCollective.webapps.bean.User

addRole, getAddress, getCreateDate, getEmail, getFirstName, getLastName, getPassword, getRoles, hasRole, removeRole, setAddress, setCreateDate, setEmail, setFirstName, setLastName, setPassword, setRoles

Methods inherited from interface com.RuntimeCollective.webapps.bean.EntityBean

delete, getId, save, setId

Method Detail

getUser

public User getUser()

Get the User that this Actor wraps.

setUser

public void setUser(User user)

Set the User that this Actor wraps.

getAttribute

public java.lang.Object getAttribute(java.lang.String name)

Get the value of an attribute.

Specified by:: getAttribute in interface User

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                         java.lang.Object value)

Set the value of an attribute.

Specified by:: setAttribute in interface User