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Diffstat (limited to 'engine/lib/entities.php')
| -rw-r--r-- | engine/lib/entities.php | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/engine/lib/entities.php b/engine/lib/entities.php index 373654431..7fe849421 100644 --- a/engine/lib/entities.php +++ b/engine/lib/entities.php @@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ abstract class ElggEntity implements */ protected $temp_annotations; + + /** + * Volatile data structure for this object, allows for storage of data + * in-memory that isn't sync'd back to the metadata table. + */ + protected $volatile; + /** * Initialise the attributes array. * This is vital to distinguish between metadata and base parameters. @@ -84,6 +91,9 @@ abstract class ElggEntity implements if (!is_array($this->temp_annotations)) { $this->temp_annotations = array(); } + if (!is_array($this->volatile)) { + $this->volatile = array(); + } $this->attributes['guid'] = ""; $this->attributes['type'] = ""; @@ -325,6 +335,35 @@ abstract class ElggEntity implements } } + + /** + * Get a piece of volatile (non-persisted) data on this entity + */ + public function getVolatileData($name) { + if (!is_array($this->volatile)) { + $this->volatile = array(); + } + + if (array_key_exists($name, $this->volatile)) { + return $this->volatile[$name]; + } else { + return NULL; + } + } + + + /** + * Set a piece of volatile (non-persisted) data on this entity + */ + public function setVolatileData($name, $value) { + if (!is_array($this->volatile)) { + $this->volatile = array(); + } + + $this->volatile[$name] = $value; + } + + /** * Remove all entities associated with this entity * |