oracle.portal.provider.v1
Interface ProviderXtra2

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultProvider

public interface ProviderXtra2

extends ProviderXtra

First Extension to the Provider interface. This interface represents an extension to the Provider interface. An extension interface was used to code using the original interface would not be broken by adding new methods.

Method Summary

int	getDebugLevel() Returns the current debug level.
ProviderLog	getProviderLog() Returns the ProviderLog associated with this provider
boolean	isDebugEnabled() Returns true if debug mode is enabled.
boolean	isReloadRequired(int action) Used to determine if this provider needs to be re-initialized from the provider.xml file.

Methods inherited from interface oracle.portal.provider.v1.ProviderXtra

getContainerRenderer, setContainerRenderer, setContainerRenderer

Methods inherited from interface oracle.portal.provider.v1.Provider

deregister, getPortlet, getPortlets, getProviderId, getProviderRepositoryPath, getSubscriber, getVersion, init, initSession, initSession, log, log, register

Method Detail

isReloadRequired

public boolean isReloadRequired(int action)

Used to determine if this provider needs to be re-initialized from the provider.xml file.

The mechanism used should work when providers are load-balanced. This means it cannot be drived by communication from the portal such as a repository refresh (as it used to be) because only one server will receive the refresh request and reloaded the definition. This leads to the servers being out of sync.

The simplest way to do this is to trigger reload (or at least a modification check) on a time interval.

This feature requires auto-reload to be enabled.

Parameters:

action - not currently used

getProviderLog

public ProviderLog getProviderLog()

Returns the ProviderLog associated with this provider

Returns:

the ProviderLog associated with this provider

isDebugEnabled

public boolean isDebugEnabled()

Returns true if debug mode is enabled. Debug mode enabled is determined by the Debug Level being greater than zero

getDebugLevel

public int getDebugLevel()

Returns the current debug level.