de.deepamehta.core

Interface Association

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All Superinterfaces:

DeepaMehtaObject, Identifiable, JSONEnabled

All Known Subinterfaces:

AssociationDefinition, RelatedAssociation

All Known Implementing Classes:

AssociationDefinitionImpl, AssociationImpl, RelatedAssociationImpl

public interface Association
extends DeepaMehtaObject

### FIXDOC: Specification of an association -- A n-ary connection between topics and other associations.

Author:

Jörg Richter

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AssociationModel	getModel()
DeepaMehtaObject	getPlayer1()
DeepaMehtaObject	getPlayer2()
Role	getRole(RoleModel roleModel) Returns this association's role which refers to the same object as the given role model.
Role	getRole1()
Role	getRole2()
Topic	getTopic(String roleTypeUri)
Topic	getTopicByType(String topicTypeUri)
boolean	isPlayer(TopicRoleModel roleModel)
Association	loadChildTopics()
Association	loadChildTopics(String assocDefUri)
void	update(AssociationModel model)

Methods inherited from interface de.deepamehta.core.DeepaMehtaObject

delete, getAssociation, getAssociations, getChildTopics, getDatabaseVendorObject, getId, getProperty, getRelatedAssociation, getRelatedAssociations, getRelatedTopic, getRelatedTopics, getRelatedTopics, getRelatedTopics, getSimpleValue, getType, 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

getRole1

Role getRole1()

getRole2

Role getRole2()

getPlayer1

DeepaMehtaObject getPlayer1()

getPlayer2

DeepaMehtaObject getPlayer2()

getTopic

Topic getTopic(String roleTypeUri)

getTopicByType

Topic getTopicByType(String topicTypeUri)

getRole

Role getRole(RoleModel roleModel)

Returns this association's role which refers to the same object as the given role model. The role returned is found by comparing topic IDs, topic URIs, or association IDs. The role types are not compared.

If the object refered by the given role model is not a player in this association an exception is thrown.

isPlayer

boolean isPlayer(TopicRoleModel roleModel)

update

void update(AssociationModel model)

loadChildTopics

Association loadChildTopics()

Specified by:

loadChildTopics in interface DeepaMehtaObject

loadChildTopics

Association loadChildTopics(String assocDefUri)

Specified by:

loadChildTopics in interface DeepaMehtaObject

getModel

AssociationModel getModel()

Specified by:

getModel in interface DeepaMehtaObject