Interface WorklistUpdate

All Superinterfaces:
Serializable, UserAttributeContainer
All Known Subinterfaces:
IncrementalWorklistUpdate
All Known Implementing Classes:
AssuringWorklistUpdate, CachingIncWorklistUpdate

public interface WorklistUpdate extends UserAttributeContainer, Serializable
A container to communicate updates in a worklist (i.e. added, removed and changed worklist items) from the server (InternalWorklist) to the client (ClientWorklist). It contains the difference between two revisions - source and target revision - and can only be applied to a client worklist whose revision equals this update's source revision.
Author:
Kevin Goeser, Ulrich Kreher
See Also:
  • Field Details

    • serialVersionUID

      static final long serialVersionUID
      Generated ID for serialisation.
      See Also:
  • Method Details

    • getWorklistID

      UUID getWorklistID()
      The ID of the worklist for which this update is intended.
      Returns:
      The ID of the worklist for which this update is intended.
    • getSourceRevision

      WorklistRevision getSourceRevision()
      Gets the source revision, i.e. the worklist revision (initialisation date and update count) to which this update can be applied. An exception is the initial revision can always be applied (by clearing the list before applying the update). The update contains all changes that have been made to the worklist since the update count of the source revision up to (and including) the target revision (update count).
      Returns:
      The source revision, i.e. the revision of the worklist (initialisation date and update count) to which this update can be applied.
    • getTargetRevision

      long getTargetRevision()
      Returns the target revision, i.e. the new revision (update count) the client worklist will have after applying this update.

      The update contains all changes that have been made to the worklist since the source revision (update count) up to (and including) the target revision.

      Like the source revision the target revision refers to the initialisation date of the worklist.

      Returns:
      The target revision, i.e. the new revision the client worklist will have after applying this update.
    • getMaxPriority

      int getMaxPriority()
      Returns the highest priority of this update, that is the highest priority of all items of this update. This also includes removed items! In case of an empty complete update (source revision 0), the priority will be WorklistConstants.Priority.NORMAL.
      Returns:
      The highest priority of all items of this update.
    • getAll

      Returns all updates, i.e. the differences from the source revision up to (and including) the target revision. The map contains all worklist items including the ones which are deleted since the source revision.

      The returned collection is unmodifiable.

      When compiling the individual recorded updates into a worklist update, the case when there are multiple recorded updates for the same worklist item (i.e. same ID, not necessarily same state) needs special attention. In this case the recorded updates need to be compressed, since a worklist update may only contain one update per worklist item. It is assumed, that every revision only contains one added, removed or changed worklist item. To compress these individual updates, only the first (since the source revision) and the last recorded update of a certain worklist item need to be considered: The state of the client worklist item (which is the key of the map), is the state at the time of its last update.
      The WorklistConstants.WorklistItemUpdateType (which is the value in the map) is determined by looking at the type of the first and the last recorded update for that item. The following shows the relevant combinations and their results.

      How different worklist item update types aggregate.
      type of first recorded update type of last recorded update resulting update type
      ADDEDCHANGEDADDED
      ADDEDREMOVEDomit (NOTHING)
      ADDEDADDED_OR_CHANGEDADDED
      ADDEDREMOVED_OR_NOTHINGomit (NOTHING)
      CHANGEDCHANGEDCHANGED
      CHANGEDREMOVEDREMOVED
      CHANGEDADDED_OR_CHANGEDCHANGED
      CHANGEDREMOVED_OR_NOTHINGREMOVED
      REMOVEDADDEDCHANGED
      REMOVEDADDED_OR_CHANGEDCHANGED
      REMOVEDREMOVED_OR_NOTHINGREMOVED
      ADDED_OR_CHANGEDCHANGEDADDED_OR_CHANGED
      ADDED_OR_CHANGEDREMOVEDREMOVED_OR_NOTHING
      ADDED_OR_CHANGEDADDED_OR_CHANGEDADDED_OR_CHANGED
      ADDED_OR_CHANGEDREMOVED_OR_NOTHINGREMOVED_OR_NOTHING
      REMOVED_OR_NOTHINGADDEDADDED_OR_CHANGED
      REMOVED_OR_NOTHINGADDED_OR_CHANGEDADDED_OR_CHANGED
      REMOVED_OR_NOTHINGREMOVED_OR_NOTHINGREMOVED_OR_NOTHING
      Other combinations don't make any sense and therefore shouldn't occur. If there's only one recorded update for an item use that update's type.
      Returns:
      The updates / differences between source and target revision.