javax.jcr.observation
Interface EventJournal

All Superinterfaces:

EventIterator, java.util.Iterator, RangeIterator

public interface EventJournal
extends EventIterator

An EventJournal is an extension of EventIterator that provides the additional method skipTo(long).

Since:

JCR 2.0

Method Summary

void	skipTo(long date) Skip all elements of the iterator earlier than date.

Methods inherited from interface javax.jcr.observation.EventIterator

nextEvent

Methods inherited from interface javax.jcr.RangeIterator

getPosition, getSize, skip

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Iterator

hasNext, next, remove

Method Detail

skipTo

void skipTo(long date)

Skip all elements of the iterator earlier than date.

If an attempt is made to skip past the last element of the iterator, no exception is thrown but the subsequent EventIterator.nextEvent() will fail.

Parameters:

date - a long value that represents an offset in milliseconds from the Epoch, January 1, 1970 00:00:00.000 GMT (Gregorian).