com.webobjects.eocontrol
Class EOTemporaryGlobalID

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, NSCoding, Serializable

public class EOTemporaryGlobalID

extends EOGlobalID

implements NSCoding

An EOTemporaryGlobalID object identifies a newly created enterprise object before it's saved to an external store. When the object is saved, the temporary ID is converted to a permanent one, as described in the EOGlobalID class specification.

See Also:

EOGlobalID, Serialized Form

Inner classes inherited from class com.webobjects.foundation.NSCoding

NSCoding.Support

Field Summary

static int

UniqueBinaryKeyLength The following int constant specifies the length (in bytes) of a global ID.

Fields inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOGlobalID

GlobalIDChangedNotification

Constructor Summary

	EOTemporaryGlobalID() Creates and returns an EOTemporaryGlobalID as a unique instance.
protected	EOTemporaryGlobalID(byte[] globallyUniqueBytes) Creates and returns an EOTemporaryGlobalID as a unique instance.

Method Summary

static void	assignGloballyUniqueBytes(byte[] uniqueBytes) Assigns to uniqueBytes an array of bytes that represent a byte string that's guaranteed to be unique network wide.
Class	classForCoder() Allows the receiver, before being encoded, to substitute a class other than its own in a coder.
static Object	decodeObject(NSCoder coder)
void	encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder) Encodes the receiver using coder.
boolean	equals(Object object) Compares the receiver to object.
int	hashCode() Provides an appropriate hash code useful for storing the receiver in a hash-based data structure.
boolean	isTemporary() Used to find out if the the globalID is temporary or not.
String	toString() String represntation of an EOTemporaryGlobalID.

Methods inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOGlobalID

clone

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

UniqueBinaryKeyLength

public static final int UniqueBinaryKeyLength

The following int constant specifies the length (in bytes) of a global ID.

Constructor Detail

EOTemporaryGlobalID

public EOTemporaryGlobalID()

Creates and returns an EOTemporaryGlobalID as a unique instance. The returned object contains a byte string that's guaranteed to be unique network wide. As a result, EOTemporaryGlobalIDs can be safely passed between processes and machines while still preserving global uniqueness. The returned byte string has the format:

 < Sequence [2], ProcessID [2] , Time [4], IP Addr [4] >
 

EOTemporaryGlobalID

protected EOTemporaryGlobalID(byte[] globallyUniqueBytes)

Creates and returns an EOTemporaryGlobalID as a unique instance. It uses ,as input, an array of bytes in order to create this unique global ID.

Parameters:

globallyUniqueBytes - an array of bytes describing a unique id

Method Detail

assignGloballyUniqueBytes

public static void assignGloballyUniqueBytes(byte[] uniqueBytes)

Assigns to uniqueBytes an array of bytes that represent a byte string that's guaranteed to be unique network wide. The size of the uniqueBytes array should be at least the value of UniqueBinaryKeyLength constant. The returned byte string has the format:

 < Sequence [2], ProcessID [2] , Time [4], IP Addr [4] >
 

See Also:

EOTemporaryGlobalID, UniqueBinaryKeyLength

classForCoder

public Class classForCoder()

Description copied from interface: NSCoding

Allows the receiver, before being encoded, to substitute a class other than its own in a coder. For example, private subclasses can substitute the name of a public superclass when being encoded.

Specified by:

classForCoder in interface NSCoding

Following copied from interface: com.webobjects.foundation.NSCoding

Returns:

the class a coder should record

decodeObject

public static Object decodeObject(NSCoder coder)

encodeWithCoder

public void encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder)

Description copied from interface: NSCoding

Encodes the receiver using coder. Object type information along with an object's data is stored.

Specified by:

encodeWithCoder in interface NSCoding

Following copied from interface: com.webobjects.foundation.NSCoding

Parameters:

coder - an NSCoder object that will be used to encode object of classes that implement this interface

See Also:

NSCoder

equals

public boolean equals(Object object)

Compares the receiver to object. If the contents of object are equal to the contents of the receiver, this method returns true. If not, it returns false. Two data objects are equal if they hold the same number of bytes, if both have the same hash code and if the bytes at the same position in the objects are the same.

Overrides:

equals in class EOGlobalID

Parameters:

object - input object against which the receiver is compared

Returns:

true if the objects are equal; false otherwise

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Description copied from class: EOGlobalID

Provides an appropriate hash code useful for storing the receiver in a hash-based data structure.

Overrides:

hashCode in class EOGlobalID

Following copied from class: com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOGlobalID

Returns:

hash code int useful for storing the receiver in a hash-based data structure

isTemporary

public boolean isTemporary()

Used to find out if the the globalID is temporary or not. This method implementation returns true.

Overrides:

isTemporary in class EOGlobalID

Returns:

true

toString

public String toString()

String represntation of an EOTemporaryGlobalID.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a String representing the array of bytes that form the temporary globalID