com.jivesoftware.community.objecttype
Interface ContainableType

All Superinterfaces:

VisibleType

All Known Implementing Classes:

MediaObjectType

public interface ContainableType
extends VisibleType

A marker interface indicating that jive objects of this type can be contained within containers such as a Community, Social Group, etc.

Method Summary

ContainableTypeInfoProvider	getContainableTypeInfoProvider() Returns a class which describes the types of containers this containable type may be contained within, and the rules governing that relationship.
ContainableTypeManager	getContainableTypeManager() Returns a manager that will perform some actions on the containable objects.

Methods inherited from interface com.jivesoftware.community.objecttype.VisibleType

getTypeUIProvider, getUserBarProvider

Method Detail

getContainableTypeInfoProvider

ContainableTypeInfoProvider getContainableTypeInfoProvider()

Returns a class which describes the types of containers this containable type may be contained within, and the rules governing that relationship. Must return a non-null value.

Returns:

a class which describes the types of containers this containable type may be contained within, and the rules governing that relationship.

getContainableTypeManager

ContainableTypeManager getContainableTypeManager()

Returns a manager that will perform some actions on the containable objects. This will return null on these legacy types that do not support this manager:

• BlogContentType
• DocumentContType
• ForumThreadContentType
• TaskContentType

Any new content type must return a valid instance.

Returns:

A manager that will perform some actions on the containable objects.