Package com.google.gerrit.server.account

Interface GroupBackend

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGroupBackend, InternalGroupBackend, SystemGroupBackend, UniversalGroupBackend

public interface GroupBackend

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
GroupDescription.Basic	get(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)	Looks up a group in the backend.
boolean	handles(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)	Returns true if the backend can operate on the UUID.
default boolean	isOrContainsExternalGroup(AccountGroup.UUID groupId)
boolean	isVisibleToAll(AccountGroup.UUID uuid)	Returns true if the group with the given UUID is visible to all registered users.
GroupMembership	membershipsOf(CurrentUser user)	Returns the group membership checker for the backend.
Collection<GroupReference>	suggest(String name, ProjectState project)	Returns suggestions for the group name sorted by name.

Method Details

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

Collection<GroupReference> suggest(String name,
 ProjectState project)

Returns suggestions for the group name sorted by name.

membershipsOf

GroupMembership membershipsOf(CurrentUser 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.

isOrContainsExternalGroup

default boolean isOrContainsExternalGroup(AccountGroup.UUID groupId)