org.apache.james.services
Interface UsersStore

All Known Implementing Classes:

AvalonUsersStore

public interface UsersStore

Interface for Phoenix blocks to access a store of Users. A UserStore contains one or more UserRepositories. Multiple UserRepositories may or may not have overlapping membership.

Version:

1.0.0, 24/04/1999

Author:

Federico Barbieri , Charles Benett

Field Summary

static String

ROLE The component role used by components implementing this service

Method Summary

UsersRepository	getRepository(String name) Get the repository, if any, whose name corresponds to the argument parameter
Iterator	getRepositoryNames() Yield an Iterator over the set of repository names managed internally by this store.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final String ROLE

The component role used by components implementing this service

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getRepository

public UsersRepository getRepository(String name)

Get the repository, if any, whose name corresponds to the argument parameter

Parameters:

name - the name of the desired repository

Returns:

the UsersRepository corresponding to the name parameter

getRepositoryNames

public Iterator getRepositoryNames()

Yield an Iterator over the set of repository names managed internally by this store.

Returns:

an Iterator over the set of repository names for this store