Package net.ontopia.topicmaps.core

Interface AssociationIF

All Superinterfaces:

ReifiableIF, ScopedIF, TMObjectIF, TypedIF

All Known Subinterfaces:

MAssociation

All Known Implementing Classes:

Association, Association, DynamicAssociation, PhantomAssociation, ReadOnlyAssociation

public interface AssociationIF
extends ScopedIF, TypedIF, ReifiableIF

PUBLIC: Implemented by objects representing associations in the topic map model.

Note: in XTM 1.0 terminology, associations have members playing roles in the association. In ISO 13250 terminology, playing a role in an association is a characteristic of a topic. These notions are intended to be equivalent.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static String	EVENT_ADD_ROLE
static String	EVENT_ADD_THEME
static String	EVENT_ADDED
static String	EVENT_REMOVE_ROLE
static String	EVENT_REMOVE_THEME
static String	EVENT_REMOVED
static String	EVENT_SET_TYPE

Fields inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.ReifiableIF

EVENT_SET_REIFIER

Fields inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TMObjectIF

EVENT_ADD_ITEMIDENTIFIER, EVENT_REMOVE_ITEMIDENTIFIER, MSG_NULL_ARGUMENT

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<AssociationRoleIF>	getRoles()	PUBLIC: Gets all the association roles of the association.
Collection<AssociationRoleIF>	getRolesByType(TopicIF roletype)	PUBLIC: Gets the association roles in this association which are of the given role type.
Collection<TopicIF>	getRoleTypes()	PUBLIC: Gets a Collection of association role types found in this association.

Methods inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.ReifiableIF

getReifier, setReifier

Methods inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.ScopedIF

addTheme, getScope, removeTheme

Methods inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TMObjectIF

addItemIdentifier, getItemIdentifiers, getObjectId, getTopicMap, isReadOnly, remove, removeItemIdentifier

Methods inherited from interface net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TypedIF

getType, setType

Field Detail

EVENT_ADDED

static final String EVENT_ADDED

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EVENT_REMOVED

static final String EVENT_REMOVED

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EVENT_SET_TYPE

static final String EVENT_SET_TYPE

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EVENT_ADD_ROLE

static final String EVENT_ADD_ROLE

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EVENT_REMOVE_ROLE

static final String EVENT_REMOVE_ROLE

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EVENT_ADD_THEME

static final String EVENT_ADD_THEME

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EVENT_REMOVE_THEME

static final String EVENT_REMOVE_THEME

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Method Detail

getRoleTypes

Collection<TopicIF> getRoleTypes()

PUBLIC: Gets a Collection of association role types found in this association. The returned collection does not contain any duplicates. Even if some roles have no type, null will not be returned as one of the role types in the returned set.

Returns:

A Collection of TopicIF objects.

getRolesByType

Collection<AssociationRoleIF> getRolesByType(TopicIF roletype)

PUBLIC: Gets the association roles in this association which are of the given role type.

Parameters:

roletype - The type of the roles returned; an object implementing TopicIF. If null the method will return the roles that have no type.

Returns:

A Collection of AssociationRoleIF objects.

getRoles

Collection<AssociationRoleIF> getRoles()

PUBLIC: Gets all the association roles of the association. The returned roles may appear in any order.

Returns:

A collection of AssociationRoleIF objects.