com.google.enterprise.connector.spi

Interface Session

All Known Implementing Classes:

DiffingConnector

public interface Session

The primary access point to information from the repository. In the future, we may add access to the root node of the repository, for crawling, or to a listener-registry for event notification.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AuthenticationManager	getAuthenticationManager() Gets an AuthenticationManager.
AuthorizationManager	getAuthorizationManager() Gets an AuthorizationManager.
TraversalManager	getTraversalManager() Gets a TraversalManager to implement query-based traversal.

Method Detail

getTraversalManager

TraversalManager getTraversalManager()
                              throws RepositoryException

Gets a TraversalManager to implement query-based traversal.

Returns:

a TraversalManager - should not be null

Throws:

RepositoryException

getAuthenticationManager

AuthenticationManager getAuthenticationManager()
                                        throws RepositoryException

Gets an AuthenticationManager. It is permissible to return null. A null return means that this implementation does not support an authentication manager. This may be for one of these reasons:

• Authentication is not needed for this data source
• Authentication is handled through another Search Appliance-supported mechanism, such as LDAP

Returns:

an AuthenticationManager - may be null

Throws:

RepositoryException

getAuthorizationManager

AuthorizationManager getAuthorizationManager()
                                      throws RepositoryException

Gets an AuthorizationManager. It is permissible to return null. A null return means that this implementation does not support an authorization manager. This may be for one of these reasons:

• Authorization is not needed for this data source - all documents are public
• Authorization is handled through another Search Appliance-supported mechanism, such as NTLM or Basic Auth

Returns:

an AuthorizationManager - may be null

Throws:

RepositoryException