com.ibm.portal.resolver.operations
Interface SafeOperation

All Superinterfaces:

ActiveFlag, Addressable, Disposable, Localized, Operation

public interface SafeOperation
extends Operation

A safe operation is a operation which should not have any non-idempotent side effects. For exampe, a safe operation should not be used to modify server-side state.

Since:

8.0

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.resolver.data.Addressable

EMPTY_PARAMETERS

Method Summary

boolean

resolve(Resolved result) Executes the operation by modifying the state in the Resolved bean.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.resolver.operations.Operation

getBinding

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Localized

getDescription, getLocales, getTitle

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.ActiveFlag

isActive

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.resolver.data.Addressable

getParameters, getURI

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Disposable

dispose

Method Detail

resolve

boolean resolve(Resolved result)
                throws ResolutionException,
                       StateException

Executes the operation by modifying the state in the Resolved bean. This method should NOT have any non-idempotent side effects. If such a side effect is required, then this method must encode the appropriate action into the state.

Parameters:

result - The resolution result. Must not be null.

Returns:

true if the operation could be executed, else false

Throws:

ResolutionException

StateException