Package be.gaudry.dao.edu

Interface IConfigDao

All Known Implementing Classes:

DerbyConfig

public interface IConfigDao

Defines the general contract of persistent layer configuration and management. Provided by the broldev.edu.dao project.

Since:

1.0 Oct 13, 2008, broldev.edu.dao 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT dependency

Version:

1.2 Oct 18, 2010

Author:

Steph GAUDRY

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	delete()
boolean	isAuthenticationFree()	Allows to know that the authentication is not used.
boolean	login(LoginBean loginBean)	Tries to authenticate with the persistent layer informations.
boolean	reset()
boolean	update()	Updates the DAO schema if needed and sets the new DAO version number
boolean	updateExists()	Reads the DAO version to know if an update is available or not.

Method Details

reset

boolean reset()

delete

boolean delete()

updateExists

boolean updateExists()

Reads the DAO version to know if an update is available or not.

Returns:

true if a DAO update is available, false otherwise

Since:

1.1 (Apr 9, 2009)

update

boolean update()

Updates the DAO schema if needed and sets the new DAO version number

Returns:

true if the update has been full performed, false otherwise

Since:

1.1 (Apr 9, 2009)

login

boolean login(LoginBean loginBean)

Tries to authenticate with the persistent layer informations. This implementation should call isAuthenticationFree() before.

Parameters:

loginBean - information needed to login

Returns:

true if the authentication has succeeded

Since:

1.2 (Oct 18, 2010)

isAuthenticationFree

boolean isAuthenticationFree()

Allows to know that the authentication is not used. If any problem occurs, or if an authenticated user is found, this will returns false to force authentication.

Returns:

true if no authentication is needed

Since:

1.2 (Oct 18, 2010)