org.exoplatform.container.multitenancy.bridge
Interface CurrentTenantLookup

public interface CurrentTenantLookup

A lookup mechanism to find a Current Tenant. This mechanism provides isolation between the Container and an actual implementation of Multitenancy.
Implementations of this interface can provide different algorithms for an actual lookup.

Author:

Peter Nedonosko

Method Summary

Tenant	getCurrentTenant() Return Current Tenant descriptor or throw CurrentTenantNotSetException if Current Tenant not set in current thread. Current Tenant can be not set in two cases: Thread runs not in a context of multitenant request (e.g.
boolean	hasCurrentTenant() Answers if Current Tenant is set in current thread.

Method Detail

getCurrentTenant

Tenant getCurrentTenant()
                        throws CurrentTenantNotSetException

Return Current Tenant descriptor or throw CurrentTenantNotSetException if Current Tenant not set in current thread.
Current Tenant can be not set in two cases:

• Thread runs not in a context of multitenant request (e.g. web request). It can be a server startup or some custom thread.
• Multitenant request wasn't properly initialized on eXo Cloud level. This might have a place in case of internal errors of the cloud.

In both cases an application should not rely on multitenant environment in this thread.

Returns:

Tenant

Throws:

CurrentTenantNotSetException - if current tenant not set.

hasCurrentTenant

boolean hasCurrentTenant()

Answers if Current Tenant is set in current thread. See getCurrentTenant() for details.

Returns:

boolean, true if current tenant is set in current thread, false otherwise.

See Also:

getCurrentTenant()