de.deepamehta.core

Interface AssociationDefinition

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All Superinterfaces:

Association, DeepaMehtaObject, Identifiable, JSONEnabled

All Known Implementing Classes:

AttachedAssociationDefinition

public interface AssociationDefinition
extends Association

Definition of an association between 2 topic types -- part of DeepaMehta's type system, like an association in a class diagram. Used to represent both, aggregations and compositions.

Author:

Jörg Richter

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getChildCardinalityUri()
String	getChildTypeUri()
String	getCustomAssocTypeUri()
String	getInstanceLevelAssocTypeUri()
AssociationDefinitionModel	getModel()
String	getParentCardinalityUri()
String	getParentTypeUri()
ViewConfiguration	getViewConfig()
void	setChildCardinalityUri(String childCardinalityUri)
void	setCustomAssocTypeUri(String customAssocTypeUri)
void	setParentCardinalityUri(String parentCardinalityUri)
void	update(AssociationDefinitionModel model)

Methods inherited from interface de.deepamehta.core.Association

getPlayer1, getPlayer2, getRole, getRole1, getRole2, getTopic, getTopicByType, isPlayer, loadChildTopics, loadChildTopics, update

Methods inherited from interface de.deepamehta.core.DeepaMehtaObject

delete, getAssociation, getAssociations, getChildTopics, getDatabaseVendorObject, getId, getProperty, getRelatedAssociation, getRelatedAssociations, getRelatedTopic, getRelatedTopics, getRelatedTopics, getRelatedTopics, getSimpleValue, getTypeUri, getUri, hasProperty, removeProperty, setChildTopics, setProperty, setSimpleValue, setSimpleValue, setSimpleValue, setSimpleValue, setSimpleValue, setTypeUri, setUri, update, updateChildTopic, updateChildTopics

Methods inherited from interface de.deepamehta.core.JSONEnabled

toJSON

Method Detail

getCustomAssocTypeUri

String getCustomAssocTypeUri()

Returns:

The custom association type, or null if not set.

getInstanceLevelAssocTypeUri

String getInstanceLevelAssocTypeUri()

Returns:

The type to be used to create an association instance based on this association definition. This is the custom association type if set, otherwise this is dm4.core.composition or dm4.core.aggregation depending on this association definition's type. Is never null.

getParentTypeUri

String getParentTypeUri()

getChildTypeUri

String getChildTypeUri()

getParentCardinalityUri

String getParentCardinalityUri()

getChildCardinalityUri

String getChildCardinalityUri()

getViewConfig

ViewConfiguration getViewConfig()

getModel

AssociationDefinitionModel getModel()

Specified by:

getModel in interface Association

Specified by:

getModel in interface DeepaMehtaObject

setCustomAssocTypeUri

void setCustomAssocTypeUri(String customAssocTypeUri)

setParentCardinalityUri

void setParentCardinalityUri(String parentCardinalityUri)

setChildCardinalityUri

void setChildCardinalityUri(String childCardinalityUri)

update

void update(AssociationDefinitionModel model)