old_trunk/schema-registries/src/main/java/org/apache/directory/server/schema/registries/NormalizerRegistry.java

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package org.apache.directory.server.schema.registries;


import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.naming.NamingException;

import org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.schema.Normalizer;
import org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.schema.syntax.NormalizerDescription;


/**
 * Normalizer registry service interface.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a>
 * @version $Rev$
 */
public interface NormalizerRegistry
{
    /**
     * Registers a Normalizer with this registry.
     * 
     * @param normalizer the Normalizer to register
     * @throws NamingException if the Normalizer is already registered or the
     *      registration operation is not supported
     */
    void register( NormalizerDescription description, Normalizer normalizer ) throws NamingException;


    /**
     * Looks up a Normalizer by its unique Object Identifier.
     * 
     * @param oid the object identifier
     * @return the Normalizer for the oid
     * @throws NamingException if there is a backing store failure or the 
     *      Normalizer does not exist.
     */
    Normalizer lookup( String oid ) throws NamingException;


    /**
     * Gets the name of the schema this schema object is associated with.
     *
     * @param oid the object identifier
     * @return the schema name
     * @throws NamingException if the schema object does not exist
     */
    String getSchemaName( String oid ) throws NamingException;


    /**
     * Checks to see if a Normalizer exists.  Backing store failures simply 
     * return false.
     * 
     * @param oid the object identifier
     * @return true if a Normalizer definition exists for the oid, false 
     *      otherwise
     */
    boolean hasNormalizer( String oid );
    
    
    /**
     * Used to iterate through all normalizers.  We have to iterate over the
     * OID String keys because these objects do not associate a matchingRule OID
     * with them as a class member.
     *  
     * @return an Iterator over the set of OID Strings in this registry
     */
    Iterator<String> oidIterator();

    
    /**
     * Used to iterate through all normalizerDescriptions.
     *  
     * @return an Iterator over the set of NormalizerDescriptions in this registry
     */
    Iterator<NormalizerDescription> normalizerDescriptionIterator();

    
    /**
     * Unregisters a normalizer from this registry by OID.
     * 
     * @param oid the numeric OID of the matchingRule the normalizer is for
     * @throws NamingException if the provided argument is not a numeric OID
     */
    void unregister( String oid ) throws NamingException;
    
    
    /**
     * Unregisters normalizers from this registry associated with a schema.
     *
     * @param schemaName the name of the schema whose normalizers are 
     * removed from this registry
     */
    void unregisterSchemaElements( String schemaName );

    
    /**
     * Renames the schemaName associated with entities within this 
     * registry to a new schema name.
     * 
     * @param originalSchemaName the original schema name
     * @param newSchemaName the new name to give to the schema
     */
    void renameSchema( String originalSchemaName, String newSchemaName );
}