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

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T> void	mergeCollection(Collection<Item<T>> target, List<Collection<Item<T>>> sources) Merges the results of each child pipeline in to the collection of Item given to this stage.

Method Detail

mergeCollection

<T> void mergeCollection(@Nonnull@NonnullElements
                       Collection<Item<T>> target,
                       @Nonnull@NonnullElements
                       List<Collection<Item<T>>> sources)

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

Type Parameters:

T - type of data contained in the items

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