/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with Alfresco. If not, see
*
* People and groups may be managed entirely in the repository or entirely in * some other implementation such as LDAP or via NTLM. Some properties may in * the repository and some in another store. Individual properties may or may * not be mutable. *
*
* @author Andy Hind
*/
@PublicService
public interface PersonService
{
/**
* Get a person by userName. The person is store in the repository. The
* person may be created as a side effect of this call, depending on the
* setting to
* {@link #setCreateMissingPeople(boolean) create missing people or not}.
*
* @param userName -
* the userName key to find the person
* @return Returns the person node, either existing or new
* @throws NoSuchPersonException
* if the user doesn't exist and could not be created
* automatically
*
* @see #setCreateMissingPeople(boolean)
* @see #createMissingPeople()
*/
@Auditable(parameters = {"userName"})
public NodeRef getPerson(String userName);
/**
* Retrieve the person NodeRef for a username key. Depending on the autoCreate
parameter and
* configuration missing people will be created if not found, else a NoSuchPersonException exception will be thrown.
*
* @param userName
* of the person NodeRef to retrieve
* @param autoCreate
* should we auto-create the person node and home folder if they don't exist? (and configuration allows
* us to)
* @return NodeRef of the person as specified by the username
* @throws NoSuchPersonException
* if the person doesn't exist and can't be created
*/
@Auditable(parameters = {"userName", "autoCreate"})
public NodeRef getPerson(final String userName, final boolean autoCreate);
/**
* Check if a person exists.
*
* @param userName
* the user name
* @return Returns true if the user exists, otherwise false
*/
@Auditable(parameters = {"userName"})
public boolean personExists(String userName);
/**
* Does this service create people on demand if they are missing. If this is
* true, a call to getPerson() will create a person if they are missing.
*
* @return true if people are created on demand and false otherwise.
*/
@Auditable
public boolean createMissingPeople();
/**
* Set if missing people should be created.
*
* @param createMissing
* set to true to create people
*
* @see #getPerson(String)
*/
@Auditable(parameters = {"createMissing"})
public void setCreateMissingPeople(boolean createMissing);
/**
* Get the list of properties that are mutable. Some service may only allow
* a limited list of properties to be changed. This may be those persisted
* in the repository or those that can be changed in some other
* implementation such as LDAP.
*
* @return A set of QNames that identify properties that can be changed
*/
@Auditable
public Setnull
or an empty set
* @return the node ref
*/
@Auditable(parameters = {"properties", "zones"})
public NodeRef createPerson(Map