Package org.tinyradius.dictionary

This package contains interfaces and classes that manage a dictionary of Radius attribute types.

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Description

Interface Summary

Dictionary	A dictionary retrieves AttributeType objects by name or type code.
WritableDictionary	A dictionary that is not read-only.

Class Summary

AttributeType	Represents a Radius attribute type.
DefaultDictionary	The default dictionary is a singleton object containing a dictionary in the memory that is filled on application startup using the default dictionary file from the classpath resource org.tinyradius.dictionary.default_dictionary.
DictionaryParser	Parses a dictionary in "Radiator format" and fills a WritableDictionary.
MemoryDictionary	A dictionary that keeps the values and names in hash maps in the memory.

Package org.tinyradius.dictionary Description

This package contains interfaces and classes that manage a dictionary of Radius attribute types.

Each attribute type is represented by an instance of the object AttributeType. This class stores the type code, the type name and the vendor ID for each attribute type.

The interface Dictionary declares the methods necessary to access a dictionary. Every class that implements this interface can be used to resolve AttributeType objects.

Dictionaries that can be changed after construction should implement the interface WritableDictionary. You can use the class DictionaryParser to populate WritableDictionary objects with data from a dictionary file in the well-known Radiator dictionary file format.

MemoryDictionary is the default implementation of WritableDictionary. It manages a dictionary held in the RAM. This class is used together with the DictionaryParser by the class DefaultDictionary which is a singleton object containing the default dictionary that is used if there is no dictionary explicitly specified. The DefaultDictionary class is initialised from the classpath resource org.tinyradius.dictionary.default_dictionary.