systems.dmx.core

Interface AssociationDefinition

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All Superinterfaces:

Association, DMXObject, Identifiable, JSONEnabled

All Known Implementing Classes:

AssociationDefinitionImpl

public interface AssociationDefinition
extends Association

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

Author:

Jörg Richter

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from interface systems.dmx.core.Association

getOtherPlayerId, getPlayer, getPlayer1, getPlayer2, getRole, getRole, getRole1, getRole2, getTopicByType, hasSameRoleTypeUris, isPlayer, loadChildTopics, loadChildTopics, matches, update

Methods inherited from interface systems.dmx.core.DMXObject

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, updateChildTopics

Methods inherited from interface systems.dmx.core.JSONEnabled

toJSON

Method Detail

getAssocDefUri

String getAssocDefUri()

getParentTypeUri

String getParentTypeUri()

getChildTypeUri

String getChildTypeUri()

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 dmx.core.composition or dmx.core.aggregation depending on this association definition's type. Is never null.

getParentCardinalityUri

String getParentCardinalityUri()

setParentCardinalityUri

void setParentCardinalityUri(String parentCardinalityUri)

getChildCardinalityUri

String getChildCardinalityUri()

setChildCardinalityUri

void setChildCardinalityUri(String childCardinalityUri)

getViewConfig

ViewConfiguration getViewConfig()

update

void update(AssociationDefinitionModel model)

getModel

AssociationDefinitionModel getModel()

Specified by:

getModel in interface Association

Specified by:

getModel in interface DMXObject