com.google.appengine.api.users
Class User

java.lang.Object
  com.google.appengine.api.users.User

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable<User>

public final class User
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable<User>

User represents a specific user, represented by the combination of an email address and a specific Google Apps domain (which we call an authDomain). For normal Google login, authDomain will be set to "gmail.com".

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

User(java.lang.String email, java.lang.String authDomain)
Creates a new User.

User(java.lang.String email, java.lang.String authDomain, java.lang.String userId)
Creates a new User.

Method Summary

int	compareTo(User user)
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object object)
java.lang.String	getAuthDomain()
java.lang.String	getEmail()
java.lang.String	getNickname() Return this user's nickname.
java.lang.String	getUserId() Returns an opaque string that uniquely identifies the user represented by this User object.
int	hashCode()
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

User

public User(java.lang.String email,
            java.lang.String authDomain)

Creates a new User.

Parameters:

email - a not null email address.

authDomain - a not null domain name into which this user has authenticated, or "gmail.com" for normal Google authentication.

User

public User(java.lang.String email,
            java.lang.String authDomain,
            java.lang.String userId)

Creates a new User.

Parameters:

email - a not null email address.

authDomain - a not null domain name into which this user has authenticated, or "gmail.com" for normal Google authentication.

userId - a possibly-null string uniquely identifying the specified user.

Method Detail

getNickname

public java.lang.String getNickname()

Return this user's nickname. The nickname will be a unique, human readable identifier for this user with respect to this application. It will be an email address for some users, but not all.

getAuthDomain

public java.lang.String getAuthDomain()

getEmail

public java.lang.String getEmail()

getUserId

public java.lang.String getUserId()

Returns an opaque string that uniquely identifies the user represented by this User object.

May be null if this User object was created explicitly and no user ID was supplied.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object object)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object

compareTo

public int compareTo(User user)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable<User>