Author: rdonkin
Date: Tue Dec 11 13:41:00 2007
New Revision: 603369

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=603369&view=rev
Log:
Proposed interface for user meta-data storage.

Added:
    james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/
    james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/
    
james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserMetaDataRespository.java
    
james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserRepositoryException.java

Added: 
james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserMetaDataRespository.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserMetaDataRespository.java?rev=603369&view=auto
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james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserMetaDataRespository.java
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james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserMetaDataRespository.java
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+/****************************************************************
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one   *
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file *
+ * distributed with this work for additional information        *
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file   *
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the            *
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance   *
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at   *
+ *                                                              *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0                 *
+ *                                                              *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,   *
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an  *
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY       *
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the    *
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations      *
+ * under the License.                                           *
+ ****************************************************************/
+
+package org.apache.james.api.user;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Contains flexible meta-data related to users.
+ * Values should be serializable to allow easy remote transport
+ * and persistence. Keys are strings.
+ * </p><p>
+ * <strong>Note</strong> conventionally keys should be URIs
+ * and so naturally namespaced. In particular, all keys starting with
+ * <code>http://james.apache.org/</code> are reserved for 
+ * use by JAMES.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public interface UserMetaDataRespository {
+    
+    /**
+     * Gets the attribute for the given key.
+     * @param key conventionally an URI, not null
+     * @return value, or null if the keyed attribute has 
+     * no associated value.
+     */
+    public Serializable getAttribute(String key) throws 
UserRepositoryException;
+    
+    /**
+     * Sets the attribute keyed to the given value.
+     * @param value <code>Serializable</code> value, possibly null
+     * @param key conventionally an URI, not null
+     */
+    public void setAttribute(Serializable value, String key) throws 
UserRepositoryException;
+}

Added: 
james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserRepositoryException.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserRepositoryException.java?rev=603369&view=auto
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james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserRepositoryException.java
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james/server/trunk/user-api/src/main/java/org/apache/james/api/user/UserRepositoryException.java
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+/****************************************************************
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one   *
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file *
+ * distributed with this work for additional information        *
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file   *
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the            *
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance   *
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at   *
+ *                                                              *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0                 *
+ *                                                              *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,   *
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an  *
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY       *
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the    *
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations      *
+ * under the License.                                           *
+ ****************************************************************/
+
+package org.apache.james.api.user;
+
+/**
+ * Basic user repository exception.
+ */
+public class UserRepositoryException extends Exception {
+
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6758478375823762715L;
+
+    public UserRepositoryException() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    public UserRepositoryException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+    }
+
+    public UserRepositoryException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    public UserRepositoryException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+}



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