com.silverpeas.questionReply.web
Class AuthorEntity

java.lang.Object
  com.silverpeas.questionReply.web.AuthorEntity

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class AuthorEntity
extends Object
implements Serializable

The entity representing the author of a comment. It is a user that has written a comment and that is exposed in the web as an entity (a web entity). As such, it publishes only some of its attributes.

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Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

protected

AuthorEntity() Creates an empty comment author.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj)
static AuthorEntity	fromUser(com.stratelia.webactiv.beans.admin.UserDetail user) Creates an new comment author entity from the specified user.
String	getAvatar() Gets the relative path of the user avatar.
String	getFullName() Gets the full name of the author (both the first name and the last name).
String	getId() Gets the unique identifier of the author.
String	getLanguage() Gets the prefered language of the author.
com.silverpeas.personalization.UserPreferences	getUserPreferences() Gets the preference of this author.
int	hashCode()
void	setAvatar(String avatarURL) Sets the URL at which is located the user's avatar.
com.stratelia.webactiv.beans.admin.UserDetail	toUser() Gets a user detail from this entity.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AuthorEntity

protected AuthorEntity()

Creates an empty comment author.

Method Detail

fromUser

public static AuthorEntity fromUser(com.stratelia.webactiv.beans.admin.UserDetail user)

Creates an new comment author entity from the specified user.

Parameters:

user - the user to entitify.

Returns:

the comment writer.

getAvatar

public String getAvatar()

Gets the relative path of the user avatar.

Returns:

the relative path of the URI refering the user avatar.

setAvatar

public void setAvatar(String avatarURL)

Sets the URL at which is located the user's avatar.

Parameters:

avatarURL - the URL of the user's avatar.

getId

public String getId()

Gets the unique identifier of the author.

Returns:

the user identifier.

getFullName

public String getFullName()

Gets the full name of the author (both the first name and the last name).

Returns:

the user full name.

getLanguage

public String getLanguage()

Gets the prefered language of the author.

Returns:

the language code of the author according to the ISO 639-1 standard (for example fr for french).

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

toUser

public com.stratelia.webactiv.beans.admin.UserDetail toUser()

Gets a user detail from this entity.

Returns:

a UserDetail instance.

getUserPreferences

public final com.silverpeas.personalization.UserPreferences getUserPreferences()

Gets the preference of this author.

Returns:

the preferences of the user or null if its preferences cannot be retrieved.