org.omg.CosNotifyChannelAdmin
Interface ConsumerAdmin

All Superinterfaces:
ConsumerAdmin, ConsumerAdminOperations, FilterAdmin, FilterAdminOperations, org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity, NotifySubscribe, NotifySubscribeOperations, org.omg.CORBA.Object, QoSAdmin, QoSAdminOperations, java.io.Serializable
All Known Subinterfaces:
TypedConsumerAdmin

public interface ConsumerAdmin
extends ConsumerAdminOperations, QoSAdmin, NotifySubscribe, FilterAdmin, ConsumerAdmin, org.omg.CORBA.Object, org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity

The ConsumerAdmin interface defines the behavior supported by objects which create and manage lists of proxy supplier objects within a Notification Service event channel. Recall that a Notification Service event channel can have any number of ConsumerAdmin instances associated with it. Each such instance is responsible for creating and managing a list of proxy supplier objects that share a common set of QoS property settings, and a common set of filter objects. This feature enables clients to conveniently group proxy supplier objects within a channel into groupings that each support a set of consumers with a common set of QoS requirements and event subscriptions. The ConsumerAdmin interface inherits the QoSAdmin interface defined within the CosNotification module, enabling each ConsumerAdmin instance to manage a set of QoS property settings. These QoS property settings are assigned as the default QoS property settings for any proxy supplier object created by a ConsumerAdmin instance. In addition, the ConsumerAdmin interface inherits from the FilterAdmin interface defined within the CosNotifyFilter module, enabling each ConsumerAdmin instance to maintain a list of filter objects. These filter objects encapsulate subscriptions that will apply to all proxy supplier objects that have been created by a given ConsumerAdmin instance. In order to enable optimizing the notification of a group of proxy supplier objects that have been created by the same ConsumerAdmin instance of changes to these shared filter objects, the ConsumerAdmin interface also inherits from the NotifySubscribe interface defined in the CosNotifyComm module. This inheritance enables a ConsumerAdmin instance to be registered as the callback object for notification of subscription changes made upon filter objects. The ConsumerAdmin interface defined in the CosNotifyChannelAdmin module also inherits from the ConsumerAdmin interface defined in the CosEventChannelAdmin module. This inheritance enables clients to use the ConsumerAdmin interface defined in the CosNotifyChannelAdmin module to create pure OMG Event Service style proxy supplier objects. Proxy supplier objects created in this manner may not support configuration of QoS properties, and may not have associated filter objects. In addition, proxy supplier objects created through the inherited ConsumerAdmin interface will not have unique identifiers associated with them, whereas proxy supplier objects created by invoking the operations supported by the ConsumerAdmin interface defined in the CosNotifyChannelAdmin module will. Locally, the ConsumerAdmin interface supports a readonly attribute which maintains a reference to the EventChannel instance that created a given ConsumerAdmin instance. The ConsumerAdmin interface also supports a readonly attribute which contains a numeric identifier which will be assigned to an instance supporting this interface by its associated Notification Service event channel upon creation of the ConsumerAdmin instance. This identifier will be unique among all ConsumerAdmin instances created by a given channel. As described above, due to inheritance from the FilterAdmin interface, a ConsumerAdmin can maintain a list of filter objects that will be applied to all proxy suppliers it creates. Also recall that each proxy supplier may itself support a list of filter objects that apply only it. When combining multiple filter objects within each of these two lists of filter objects that may be associated with a given proxy supplier, OR semantics are applied. However when combining these two lists during the evaluation of a given event, either AND or OR semantics may be applied. The choice is determined by an input flag upon creation of the ConsumerAdmin, and the operator that will be used for this purpose by a given ConsumerAdmin is maintained in a readonly attribute. The ConsumerAdmin interface also supports attributes which maintain references to priority and lifetime mapping filter objects. These mapping filter objects will be applied to all proxy supplier objects created by a given ConsumerAdmin instance. Each ConsumerAdmin instance assigns a unique numeric identifier to each proxy supplier object it maintains. The ConsumerAdmin interface supports attributes which maintain the list of these unique identifiers associated with the proxy pull and the proxy push suppliers created by a given ConsumerAdmin instance. The ConsumerAdmin interface also supports an operation which, given the unique identifier of a proxy supplier a given ConsumerAdmin instance has created as input, will return the object reference of that proxy supplier object. Additionally, the ConsumerAdmin interface supports operations which can create the various styles of proxy supplier objects supported by the Notification Service event channel. Finally, because clients of a given Notification Service event channel can create any number of ConsumerAdmin instances, a destroy operation is provided by this interface so that clients can clean up instances that are no longer needed.


Method Summary
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotifyChannelAdmin.ConsumerAdminOperations
destroy, get_proxy_supplier, lifetime_filter, lifetime_filter, MyChannel, MyID, MyOperator, obtain_notification_pull_supplier, obtain_notification_push_supplier, priority_filter, priority_filter, pull_suppliers, push_suppliers
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotification.QoSAdminOperations
get_qos, set_qos, validate_qos
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotifyComm.NotifySubscribeOperations
subscription_change
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotifyFilter.FilterAdminOperations
add_filter, get_all_filters, get_filter, remove_all_filters, remove_filter
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosEventChannelAdmin.ConsumerAdminOperations
obtain_pull_supplier, obtain_push_supplier
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotification.QoSAdminOperations
get_qos, set_qos, validate_qos
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CORBA.Object
_create_request, _create_request, _duplicate, _get_domain_managers, _get_interface_def, _get_policy, _hash, _is_a, _is_equivalent, _non_existent, _release, _request, _set_policy_override
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotifyComm.NotifySubscribeOperations
subscription_change
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CORBA.Object
_create_request, _create_request, _duplicate, _get_domain_managers, _get_interface_def, _get_policy, _hash, _is_a, _is_equivalent, _non_existent, _release, _request, _set_policy_override
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosNotifyFilter.FilterAdminOperations
add_filter, get_all_filters, get_filter, remove_all_filters, remove_filter
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CORBA.Object
_create_request, _create_request, _duplicate, _get_domain_managers, _get_interface_def, _get_policy, _hash, _is_a, _is_equivalent, _non_existent, _release, _request, _set_policy_override
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CosEventChannelAdmin.ConsumerAdminOperations
obtain_pull_supplier, obtain_push_supplier
 
Methods inherited from interface org.omg.CORBA.Object
_create_request, _create_request, _duplicate, _get_domain_managers, _get_interface_def, _get_policy, _hash, _is_a, _is_equivalent, _non_existent, _release, _request, _set_policy_override