NotificationThread (JCMS API)

java.lang.Object
- com.jalios.jcms.NotificationThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable
```
public class NotificationThread
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Runnable
```
Creates and sends customized emails to the appropriate members.
- Retrieve all groups and all members having requested notification for the period being currently handled.
- Retrieve all changes between now and now minus period
- Builds a set containing each member either belonging to a matching group or having the matching period ('matching' means the 'period' attribute value equals the current period)
- For each member: If the member's attribute 'inheritsFromGroupsNotificationCriteria' is true:
  - Retrieves all groups this member belongs to
  - For each group which has indeed a period that is equal to the current processed period:
    - Retrieves the notification selection criteria of the group and executes the query, whith 'member' as loggedMember attribute of the QueryHandler
    - Puts the result of the query in the publications set associated with this member via a member|publications Map (as these publications are gathered in a set, there is no doublon)
  For each query the user has chosen:
  - Apply the query to the set of changed or created publications
  - Matching publications are selected only if not previously selected
  - The map user|publications is completed
- When all members have been processed, messages are sent.

- Constructor Summary
  
  Constructors
  Constructor Description
  
  NotificationThread(int period)
  Constructor, creates a new notification thread for the specified period.
- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  void run()
  
  void start()
  Starts the Notification Thread.
  - Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - NotificationThread
```
public NotificationThread(int period)
```
    Constructor, creates a new notification thread for the specified period. This constructors will not perform any heavy processing, you must invoke method start() to launch thread.
    
    Parameters:
    
    period - a period constant from : NotificationManager.MINUTED, NotificationManager.HOURLY, NotificationManager.DAILY, NotificationManager.WEEKLY or NotificationManager.MONTHLY
- Method Detail
  - start
```
public void start()
```
    Starts the Notification Thread.
  - run
```
public void run()
```
    Specified by:
    
    run in interface java.lang.Runnable