com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache
Interface CacheRefresher

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCacheRefresher, EventTokenChangedCacheRefresher, RemoteDirectoryCacheRefresher, UsnChangedCacheRefresher

public interface CacheRefresher

Represents a way of refreshing a local cache of an external directory.

This was introduced in order to enable Active Directory delta cache updates.

Since:

v2.1

Method Summary

void	synchroniseAll(DirectoryCache directoryCache) Will visit all Users and Groups in the external directory in order to do a Full refresh.
boolean	synchroniseChanges(DirectoryCache directoryCache) Attempts to synchronise changes since the last refresh as opposed to performing a full synchronisation.

Method Detail

synchroniseAll

void synchroniseAll(DirectoryCache directoryCache)
                    throws OperationFailedException

Will visit all Users and Groups in the external directory in order to do a Full refresh.

Parameters:

directoryCache - the DirectoryCache to update.

Throws:

OperationFailedException - if there was an error processing the operation

synchroniseChanges

boolean synchroniseChanges(DirectoryCache directoryCache)
                           throws OperationFailedException

Attempts to synchronise changes since the last refresh as opposed to performing a full synchronisation. Returns true if changes since the last refresh were synchronised successfully.

Parameters:

directoryCache - the DirectoryCache to update.

Returns:

true if changes were synchronised

Throws:

OperationFailedException - if there was an error processing the operation