Finding objects and finding parent objects

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Aaron Unger

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Apr 10, 2009, 3:03:27 PM4/10/09

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I recently added some helper methods to OTrunkImpl (and some supporting functionality to XMLDatabase) which make it easier to find objects.

Find all loaded objects of a certain type:

Using OTrunkImpl.getAllObjects(Class), you will be returned an ArrayList<OTObject> with all loaded objects that can be cast to the passed in class.

see: http://confluence.concord.org/display/CSP/OTrunk+HowTo#OTrunkHowTo-Getallloadedobjectsofacertaintype

Find objects with references to another object:

public ArrayList<OTID> getReferences(OTID objectID, Class<?> filterClass, boolean recurse, ArrayList<OTID> excludeIDs)

filterClass will filter the collection of parents by a certain class, similar to OTrunkImpl.getAllObjects(Class) does (can be null)

recursion sets whether to find indirect references (true), or only direct references (false) (assuming a heirarchy of a -> c, b -> c, c -> d; a and b are indirect references for d, c is a direct reference to d)

excludeIDs is a list of OTIDs which we don't want to include and don't want to recurse through (can be null)

see: http://confluence.concord.org/display/CSP/OTrunk+HowTo#OTrunkHowTo-Getobjectswhichreferenceanotherobject%2Cindirectlyordirectly