[JCR-2061] JSR 283: References and Dereferencing of Property Values

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-alpha3
• Component/s: jackrabbit-core, jackrabbit-jcr2spi, JCR 2.0
• Assignee: Stefan Guggisberg
• Reporter: Angela Schreiber
• Created: 07/Apr/09 13:22
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 11:35
• Resolved: 12/Jun/09 07:39

Description

References
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new methods are:

• Node.getReferences(String name) PropertyIterator
• Node.getWeakReferences() PropertyIterator
• Node.getWeakReferences(String name) PropertyIterator

Derferencing
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As of JSR 283 the following property types may be dereferenced to a Node:

• REFERENCE
• WEAKREFERENCE
• PATH
• any type that can be converted to either of the types above

The new method

• Property.getProperty() returns the Property pointed to by a PATH value.
• any type that can be converted to PATH