001/* OpenMBeanOperationInfo.java -- Open typed info about a operation. 002 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package javax.management.openmbean; 039 040import javax.management.MBeanParameterInfo; 041 042/** 043 * Describes a operation for an open management bean. 044 * This interface includes those methods specified by {@link 045 * javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo}, so implementations should 046 * extend this class. The {@link #getSignature()} method should 047 * return an array containing instances of {@link OpenMBeanParameterInfo}. 048 * 049 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 050 * @since 1.5 051 */ 052public interface OpenMBeanOperationInfo 053{ 054 055 /** 056 * Compares this attribute with the supplied object. This returns 057 * true iff the object is an instance of {@link OpenMBeanOperationInfo} 058 * with an equal name, signature, open return type and impact. 059 * 060 * @param obj the object to compare. 061 * @return true if the object is a {@link OpenMBeanParameterInfo} 062 * instance, 063 * <code>name.equals(object.getName())</code>, 064 * <code>signature.equals(object.getSignature())</code>, 065 * <code>returnOpenType.equals(object.getReturnOpenType())</code>, 066 * and <code>impact == object.getImpact()</code>. 067 */ 068 boolean equals(Object obj); 069 070 /** 071 * Returns a description of this operation. 072 * 073 * @return a human-readable description. 074 */ 075 String getDescription(); 076 077 /** 078 * <p> 079 * Returns the impact of performing this operation. 080 * The value is equal to one of the following: 081 * </p> 082 * <ol> 083 * <li>{@link javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo#INFO} 084 * — the method just returns 085 * information (akin to an accessor).</li> 086 * <li>{@link javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo#ACTION} 087 * the method just alters the state of the bean, without 088 * returning a value (akin to a mutator).</li> 089 * <li>{@link javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo#ACTION_INFO} 090 * the method both makes state changes and returns a value.</li> 091 * <li>{@link javax.management.MBeanOperationInfo#UNKNOWN} 092 * the behaviour of the operation is unknown.</li> 093 * </ol> 094 * 095 * @return the impact of performing the operation. 096 */ 097 int getImpact(); 098 099 /** 100 * Returns the name of this operation. 101 * 102 * @return the name of the operation. 103 */ 104 String getName(); 105 106 /** 107 * Returns the open type instance which represents the type of the 108 * return value. 109 * 110 * @return the open type of the return value. 111 */ 112 OpenType<?> getReturnOpenType(); 113 114 /** 115 * Returns the return type of the operation, as the class 116 * name. This should be identical to 117 * <code>getReturnOpenType.getClassName()</code>. 118 * 119 * @return the return type. 120 */ 121 String getReturnType(); 122 123 /** 124 * Returns the operation's signature, in the form of 125 * information on each parameter. Each parameter is 126 * described by an instance of {@link OpenMBeanParameterInfo}. 127 * 128 * @return an array of {@link OpenMBeanParameterInfo} objects, 129 * describing the operation parameters. 130 */ 131 MBeanParameterInfo[] getSignature(); 132 133 /** 134 * Returns the hashcode of the operation information as the sum of 135 * the hashcodes of the name, open return type, impact and signature 136 * (calculated by 137 * <code>java.util.Arrays.asList(signature).hashCode()</code>). 138 * 139 * @return the hashcode of the operation information. 140 */ 141 int hashCode(); 142 143 /** 144 * Returns a textual representation of this instance. This 145 * is constructed using the class name 146 * (<code>javax.management.openmbean.OpenMBeanOperationInfo</code>) 147 * along with the name, signature, open return type and impact. 148 * 149 * @return a @link{java.lang.String} instance representing 150 * the instance in textual form. 151 */ 152 String toString(); 153 154}