org.eclipse.birt.core.archive
Interface IArchiveLockManager

public interface IArchiveLockManager

lock used by the report engine to synchronize the document archives. the call sequence of such a locker should be:

 Object lock = manager.lock("fileName");
 synchronized(lock)
 {
         ... process ...
 }
 manager.unlock(lock).
 

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	lock(java.lang.String name) lock the object named by "name"
void	unlock(java.lang.Object lock) unlock the object locked by "lock".

Method Detail

lock

java.lang.Object lock(java.lang.String name)
                      throws java.io.IOException

lock the object named by "name"

Parameters:

name - object name, the file name for file object.

Returns:

a locker used to lock the object.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

unlock

void unlock(java.lang.Object lock)

unlock the object locked by "lock".

Parameters:

lock - the lock object return from lock().