ConfigurationProvider (OpenNMS 28.0.0-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

BeanConfigurationProvider, ConfigExtensionManager, EventConfExtensionManager, GraphPropertiesExtensionManager, ResourceTypesExtensionManager, SnmpCollectionExtensionManager, SyslogMatchExtensionManager, ThreshdConfigurationExtensionManager, ThresholdingConfigExtensionManager
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public interface ConfigurationProvider
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This interface allows extensions to provide configuration objects of a given type. See ConfigReloadContainer

Author:

jwhite

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`long`	`getLastUpdate()`
`java.lang.Object`	`getObject()`	Retrieve the actual configuration bean.
`java.lang.Class<?>`	`getType()`	Retrieve a class reference to the type of object returned by `getObject()`.

- Method Detail
  - getType
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java.lang.Class<?> getType()
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    Retrieve a class reference to the type of object returned by getObject(). This is used instead of generics to be OSGi friendly.
    
    Returns:
    
    the type of object returned by getObject()
  - getObject
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java.lang.Object getObject()
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    Retrieve the actual configuration bean.
    
    Returns:
    
    the configuration bean, must be non-null
  - getLastUpdate
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long getLastUpdate()
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    Returns:
    
    the last time (in ms) at which the configuration bean was updated