com.google.gerrit.server.account

Interface GroupBackend

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGroupBackend, InternalGroupBackend, LdapGroupBackend, SystemGroupBackend, UniversalGroupBackend

public interface GroupBackend

Implementations of GroupBackend provide lookup and membership accessors to a group system.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
GroupDescription.Basic	get(AccountGroup.UUID uuid) Looks up a group in the backend.
boolean	handles(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)
boolean	isVisibleToAll(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)
GroupMembership	membershipsOf(IdentifiedUser user)
java.util.Collection<GroupReference>	suggest(java.lang.String name, ProjectControl project)

Method Detail

handles

boolean handles(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)

Returns:

true if the backend can operate on the UUID.

get

GroupDescription.Basic get(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)

Looks up a group in the backend. If the group does not exist, null is returned.

Parameters:

uuid - the group identifier

Returns:

the group

suggest

java.util.Collection<GroupReference> suggest(java.lang.String name,
                                             ProjectControl project)

Returns:

suggestions for the group name sorted by name.

membershipsOf

GroupMembership membershipsOf(IdentifiedUser user)

Returns:

the group membership checker for the backend.

isVisibleToAll

boolean isVisibleToAll(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)

Returns:

true if the group with the given UUID is visible to all registered users.