com.ibm.portal.resolver.data
Interface DataSourceFragment

All Superinterfaces:

Disposable, TimeStamped

All Known Subinterfaces:

ByteDataSource, CacheControlDataSource, CachedDataSourceFactory.UncacheableValue<T>, CachedDataSourceFactory.Value<T>, CharDataSource, ContentDispositionDataSource, ContentLengthDataSource, ConvertibleDataSource, DataSource, DataSourceChecksum, JsonDataSource, MultipartDataSource, ProjectContextDataSource, RedirectDataSource, StatusCodeDataSource, UserContextDataSource, VaryDataSource, VirtualPortalContextDataSource, XmlDataSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDataSource, AbstractStaticDataSource, DefaultDataSource, EarlyBindingDataSource

public interface DataSourceFragment
extends TimeStamped, Disposable

Represents a fragment of a complete data source. The assumption is that the metadata is constant across the lifetime of the DataSourceFragment, i.e. calling any of the methods multiple times must always return the same result.

Since:

6.1.0.2

Field Summary

static java.util.Date

EXPIRATION_UNKNOWN Indicates an unknown expiration

Method Summary

java.util.Date

getExpiration() Absolute timestamp that indicates the time when the data represented by the source will expire.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.TimeStamped

getCreated, getLastModified

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Disposable

dispose

Field Detail

EXPIRATION_UNKNOWN

static final java.util.Date EXPIRATION_UNKNOWN

Indicates an unknown expiration

Since:

7.0

Method Detail

getExpiration

java.util.Date getExpiration()

Absolute timestamp that indicates the time when the data represented by the source will expire.

Returns:

the date the data expires or EXPIRATION_UNKNOWN if the value is unknown