Repository manager mass lookup calls

Question

Does anyone know of any documentation on what is expected from the repository manager mass lookup calls? These have to be implemented for searching with TREX to work.
I think the first method is fairly simple:
public List lookup(
     List ridList,
     boolean contentToBeFetched,
     List propertyNamesToBeFetched)
     throws ResourceException,      OperationNotCompletedException
For the given list if RIDs, it should return a single ArrayList containing:
1) a handle for each rid
2) an InputStream for each rid if contentToBeFetched == true
3) an IProperty for each RID and each IPropertyName specified in propertyNamesToBeFetched
This means that the return list will contain objects of three types: IResource, InputStream and IProperty.
Frankly, I have no idea of what to return for the second method:
public List lookup(
     List ridList,
     Map content,
     Map properties,
     String[] permissionNames)
     throws ResourceException, OperationNotCompletedException
Is there any documentation for these what these methods should return? What do the Maps content and properties contain? What do I do with permission names?
Many thanks!
-Alex

Answer 1

Hi Alex,
unfortunately the documentation of RM developemnt is not yet finished, but I'd like to clearify some of your issues:
1) The java.util.List objects returned by teh lookup() methods should contain IResourceHandle objects from the RMs implementation
2) The java.util.Map objects in the public List lookup( List ridList,Map content,Map properties,String[] permissionNames) method can optionally be pre-filled with content references and properties. The map has to be filled with IResourceHandle object as keys and a reference to its IContent object or IPropertyMap object as the value of the map.
If the maps are not filled the RF will call the getContent() and getProperties() methods from the ContentManager and PropertyManager aspects.
Regards,
Thilo