OpenWGA 7.9 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features
Design and development » Service APIsService APIs bundled with OpenWGA
The following interface classes come pre-bundled with OpenWGA. The usage of all shoud be documented in WGA Server API Javadoc reference.
| Name | Interface class | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative mail service | de.innovationgate.wgpublisher.WGAAdminNotificationService | Sending mail messages to the administrator of this system. |
| Application log service | de.innovationgate.wgpublisher.log.AppLog | Retrieving application log content |
| Hashed password reading/writing service | de.innovationgate.wgpublisher.HashedPasswordService | Service for reading/writing hashed password items like <tml:input type="hashedpassword"> creates them are used as password items on authentication content stores. This effectively is a high-level version of the uni-directional encryption service which additionally provides the storage format needed for these items. |
| Image link reader service | de.innovationgate.wgpublisher.webtml.utils.ImageLinkReader | Reading and parsing image links stored in content items |
| Image scaling (format-neutral) | de.innovationgate.utils.ImageScaler | Provides the currently active image scaler implementation, usable for any image format. Same as WGA.createImageScaler() on WGA Server API. |
| Image scaling (mimetype-specific) | de.innovationgate.utils.MimeTypeSpecificImageScalerFactory | Provides image scalers for specific mime types |
| Registration for temporary downloads | de.innovationgate.wgpublisher.TemporaryDownloadService | Registers files on the servers file system with a users session, so only this user can download the file for a limited time of at least 30 minutes. Does the registration and provides the download URL. |
| Uni-directional encryption service | de.innovationgate.utils.security.HashingService | Encrypts binary data into an unrecoverable form, which however can be compared to other data for equality. Interface provides both, encryption and comparision functionality. |