Specifying Configuration Metadata for Polling Notifications

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The next step for implementing a polling notification is to create the metadata constructs that the users of the adapter use for entering data when they create polling notification nodes. To do this, you perform the following:

Create metadata parameters appropriate for the function of the polling notification. Each parameter has:

A variable to hold the configured values.

A String constant containing the name of the parameter.

An accessor method.

A set of resource bundle entries with a localizable parameter name and description as shown in Updating the Resource Bundle.

For more information on metadata parameters, see Metadata Model for Connection.

Describe presentation for those metadata parameters.

Set the data entry rules for those metadata parameters.

The example implementation includes three metadata parameters that the users of the adapter use to create polling notification nodes. The following table describes the purpose of each of these parameters for data entry:

Parameter	Description
directory	Directory to monitor.
checkAdded	Indicates whether notifications must be sent when files are added to the specified directory.
checkDeleted	Indicates whether notifications must be sent when files are deleted from the specified directory.

Specifying the Display and Data Entry Attributes of the Data Entry Parameters

After creating the parameters, specify the display and data entry attributes by calling various methods of the WmTemplateDescriptor interface from the service's fillWmTemplateDescriptor method.

The example code places each data entry parameter into a single group (in display order) referenced by the NOTIFICATION_SETUP_GROUP constant. A constant instead of a string is used to name the group, because the same value is used in the resource bundle to specify a localizable group name.