IdentifiableContentBean (Hippo Site Toolkit API 15.4.0 API)

All Superinterfaces:

ContentBean

All Known Subinterfaces:

HippoAssetBean, HippoBean, HippoCompoundBean, HippoDocumentBean, HippoFacetChildNavigationBean, HippoFacetNavigationBean, HippoFolderBean, HippoGalleryImageBean, HippoGalleryImageSetBean, HippoHtmlBean, HippoMirrorBean, HippoRequestBean, HippoResourceBean, HippoResultSetBean, HippoVirtualOnlyBean
```
public interface IdentifiableContentBean
extends ContentBean
```
The base interface for all identifiable beans: This includes beans that can be completely independent of jcr, for example a bean that represents some external src. The getIdentifier() must return the unique identifier for this IdentifiableContentBean : This is typically the identifier used in indexes

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getIdentifier()`	This returns the identifier of the backing provider for this bean, for example some UUID or /documents/content/myprojec/news/article or http://www.example.com/foo/bar, or a RDBMS id, etc It is not allowed for any implementation to return `null`
`default String`	`getRepresentationId()`	The representational id for a `IdentifiableContentBean` is by default equal to the `getIdentifier()` however implementations can change choose to return another id than the `getIdentifier()`.
`void`	`setIdentifier(String identifier)`

- Method Detail
  - getIdentifier
```
@IndexField(name="id",
            ignoreInCompound=true)
String getIdentifier()
```
    This returns the identifier of the backing provider for this bean, for example some UUID or /documents/content/myprojec/news/article or http://www.example.com/foo/bar, or a RDBMS id, etc It is not allowed for any implementation to return null
    
    Since the return value for this method is used as the index document identifier, it must be unique for every bean that must be indexed
    
    Returns:
    
    the identifier for this IdentifiableContentBean
  - setIdentifier
```
void setIdentifier(String identifier)
```
    Parameters:
    
    identifier - sets the identifier for this IdentifiableContentBean
    
    See Also:
    
    getIdentifier()
  - getRepresentationId
```
default String getRepresentationId()
```
    The representational id for a IdentifiableContentBean is by default equal to the getIdentifier() however implementations can change choose to return another id than the getIdentifier(). An example of a subclass (interface) returning a different value is for example the HippoDocumentBean, since this one does return for getRepresentationId() the id of the backing JCR handle uuid instead of the uuid of the document variant.
    
    Returns:
    
    the representational id for this IdentifiableContentBean