Class ContactUtils

java.lang.Object

ubic.gemma.model.common.auditAndSecurity.ContactUtils

public final class ContactUtils
extends Object

Helpers for reading a Contact the way a person is displayed.

Author:

paul

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	displayName(Contact contact)	The best available human-readable name for a contact: its name, else the account's userName.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

displayName

@Nullable
public static String displayName(@Nullable
 Contact contact)

The best available human-readable name for a contact: its name, else the account's userName.

A Gemma User carries userName separately from the name it inherits as a Person, and the contact name is optional. Anything typed Contact — Ticket's reporter and assignee, a TicketEvent's actor — therefore reads null for an account that never filled one in, even though the account has a username. AuditEventValueObject does not hit this because AuditEvent.performer is declared User.

Parameters:

contact - a contact, possibly an uninitialized-but-attached proxy; may be null

Returns:

the name, else the username, else null — never blank