net.shibboleth.metadata
Interface CollectionMergeStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DeduplicatingItemIdMergeStrategy, SimpleCollectionMergeStrategy

public interface CollectionMergeStrategy

Strategy used to merge the results of each child pipeline in to the collection of Items given to this stage.

Method Summary

void	mergeCollection(Collection<Item<?>> target, Collection<Item<?>>... sources) Merges the results of each child pipeline in to the collection of Item given to this stage.

Method Detail

mergeCollection

void mergeCollection(@Nonnull@NonnullElements
                     Collection<Item<?>> target,
                     @Nonnull@NonnullElements
                     Collection<Item<?>>... sources)

Merges the results of each child pipeline in to the collection of Item given to this stage.

Parameters:

target - collection in to which all the Items should be merged, never null

sources - collections of Items to be merged in to the target, never null not containing any null elements