Package com.ptc.windchill.collector.api

Interface Collector

All Known Implementing Classes:

CadCollector, PartCollector

public interface Collector

Collector object able to gather data objects per configured specification and options.
This is generic collector object type with methods common for gathering data.

Supported API: true
Extendable: true

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
CollectedResult	collect()	Gather data objects according to a configured specification and selected options.

Method Details

collect

CollectedResult collect()
                 throws WTException,
WTPropertyVetoException

Gather data objects according to a configured specification and selected options.
Supported API: true

Returns:

instance of CollectedResult from where you can get access to all collected objects.

Throws:

WTException - contains error message if collect operation failed and may describe invalid input.

WTPropertyVetoException - if input was invalid.