org.sblim.slp

Interface Advertiser

public interface Advertiser

The Advertiser is the SA interface, allowing clients to register new service instances with SLP, to change the attributes of existing services, and to deregister service instances. New registrations and modifications of attributes are made in the language locale with which the Advertiser was created, deregistrations of service instances are made for all locales.
Method Summary
abstract voidaddAttributes(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributes)
Update the registration by adding the given attributes.
abstract voiddeleteAttributes(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributeIds)
Delete the attributes from a URL for the locale with which the Advertiser was created.
abstract voidderegister(ServiceURL pURL)
Deregister a service from the SLP framework.
abstract LocalegetLocale()
Return the language locale with which this object was created.
abstract voidregister(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributes)
Register a new service with SLP having the given attributes.

Method Detail

addAttributes

public abstract void addAttributes(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributes)
Update the registration by adding the given attributes. The API library is required to perform the operation in all scopes obtained through configuration.

Parameters: pURL The URL for the service. pAttributes A Vector of ServiceLocationAttribute objects to add to the existing registration. Use an empty vector to update the URL alone. May not be null.

Throws: ServiceLocationException

deleteAttributes

public abstract void deleteAttributes(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributeIds)
Delete the attributes from a URL for the locale with which the Advertiser was created. The API library is required to perform the operation in all scopes obtained through configuration.

Parameters: pURL The URL for the service. pAttributeIds A vector of Strings indicating the ids of the attributes to remove. The strings may be attribute ids or they may be wildcard patterns to match ids. See [7] for the syntax of wildcard patterns. The strings may include SLP reserved characters, they will be escaped by the API before transmission. May not be the empty vector or null.

Throws: ServiceLocationException

deregister

public abstract void deregister(ServiceURL pURL)
Deregister a service from the SLP framework. This has the effect of deregistering the service from every language locale. The API library is required to perform the operation in all scopes obtained through configuration.

Parameters: pURL The URL for the service.

Throws: ServiceLocationException

getLocale

public abstract Locale getLocale()
Return the language locale with which this object was created.

Returns: The locale

register

public abstract void register(ServiceURL pURL, Vector pAttributes)
Register a new service with SLP having the given attributes. The API library is required to perform the operation in all scopes obtained through configuration.

Parameters: pURL The URL for the service. pAttributes A vector of ServiceLocationAttribute objects describing the service.

Throws: ServiceLocationException

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