net.cnri.repository.layered

Interface SupportsFastCopyForLayeredRepo

All Known Implementing Classes:

BdbjeDigitalObject, DigitalObjectWrapper, EmbeddedDigitalObject, HighLevelDigitalObject, LayeredDigitalObject, SyncingDigitalObject

public interface SupportsFastCopyForLayeredRepo

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	copyTo(DigitalObject target) Copy this digital object (in the bottom repository of a LayeredRepository to another digital object (in the top repository).

Method Detail

copyTo

void copyTo(DigitalObject target)
            throws RepositoryException,
                   java.io.IOException

Copy this digital object (in the bottom repository of a LayeredRepository to another digital object (in the top repository). For implementations that can be faster than naive copying. In general this does not copy the data of data elements, but sets the attribute LayeredDataElement.ATTRIBUTE_DATA_ELEMENT_MISSING to 1 on each data element not copied.

Parameters:

target - the digital object to copy into

Throws:

RepositoryException

java.io.IOException