Package edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ui.util

Interface MembershipImporter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMembershipImporter

public interface MembershipImporter

Interface that reads data and tries to create memberships.

Version:

$Id: MembershipImporter.java,v 1.5 2009-08-12 04:52:14 mchyzer Exp $

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	load(Group group, Reader input, PrintWriter output, Element config, Field field)	Parses data to resolve to a Subject and attempts to add the Subject to the Group membership.

Method Details

load

int load(Group group,
 Reader input,
 PrintWriter output,
 Element config,
 Field field)
  throws IOException,
SchemaException

Parses data to resolve to a Subject and attempts to add the Subject to the Group membership. If a Subject cannot be resolved and error count is incremented - and returned, and an error message is written to output. This method would normally be called indirectly from MembershipImportManager, which reads configuration information from an XML file. Implementation specific configuration is encoded as XML attributes

Parameters:

group -

input -

output -

config -

nav -

Returns:

count of errors encountered during load

Throws:

IOException

SchemaException