net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.resolver
Interface Resolver<ProductType,CriteriaType>

Type Parameters:

ProductType - the type of objects produced by this resolver

CriteriaType - the type of criteria to process during resolution

All Known Subinterfaces:

CriteriaBasedResolver<ProductType>, PredicateBasedResolver<ProductType>

public interface Resolver<ProductType,CriteriaType>

Generic interface for resolvers which process specified criteria and produce some implementation-specific result information.

Method Summary

Iterable<ProductType>	resolve(CriteriaType criteria) Process the specified criteria and return the resulting instances the the product type which satisfy the criteria.
ProductType	resolveSingle(CriteriaType criteria) Process the specified criteria and return a single instance of the product type which satisfies the criteria.

Method Detail

resolve

@Nonnull
Iterable<ProductType> resolve(@Nullable
                                      CriteriaType criteria)
                              throws ResolverException

Process the specified criteria and return the resulting instances the the product type which satisfy the criteria.

Parameters:

criteria - the criteria to evaluate or process

Returns:

instances which satisfy the criteria

Throws:

ResolverException - thrown if there is an error processing the specified criteria

resolveSingle

@Nullable
ProductType resolveSingle(@Nullable
                                   CriteriaType criteria)
                          throws ResolverException

Process the specified criteria and return a single instance of the product type which satisfies the criteria. If multiple items satisfy the criteria, the choice of which single item to return is implementation-dependent.

Parameters:

criteria - the criteria to evaluate or process

Returns:

instances which satisfy the criteria

Throws:

ResolverException - thrown if there is an error processing the specified criteria