com.ibm.portal
Interface ObjectID

All Superinterfaces:

Identifiable

public interface ObjectID
extends Identifiable

Represents a unique identifier for a resource in Portal. ObjectIDs can be used to load persistent resources from the database and they represent the linking between persistent resources in the database.

Since:

5.1

Nested Class Summary

static interface	ObjectID.Deserializer Reads ObjectIDs.
static interface	ObjectID.Serializer Writes ObjectIDs.

Method Summary

ObjectType	getObjectType() Returns the type of the resource that is identified by this ObjectID.
com.ibm.portal.ResourceType	getResourceType() Deprecated. use getObjectType() instead
java.lang.String	getUniqueName() Returns the unique name that corresponds to this ObjectID

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Identifiable

getObjectID

Method Detail

getResourceType

com.ibm.portal.ResourceType getResourceType()

Deprecated. use getObjectType() instead

Returns the type of the resource that is identified by this ObjectID.

Returns:

the type of the resource that is identified by this ObjectID, can never be null.

getObjectType

ObjectType getObjectType()

Returns the type of the resource that is identified by this ObjectID.

Returns:

the type of the resource that is identified by this ObjectID, can never be null.

getUniqueName

java.lang.String getUniqueName()

Returns the unique name that corresponds to this ObjectID

Returns:

the corresponding unique name or null if no unique name defined for the ObjectID