org.osid.resourcing

Interface Foundry

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Federateable, Identifiable, OsidCatalog, OsidObject, Sourceable

public interface Foundry
extends OsidCatalog

A Foundry represents a collection of jobs.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
FoundryRecord	getFoundryRecord(Type foundryRecordType) Gets the foundry record corresponding to the given Foundry record Type.

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.OsidObject

getDescription, getDisplayName, getGenusType, isOfGenusType

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Identifiable

getId, isCurrent

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Extensible

getRecordTypes, hasRecordType

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Browsable

getProperties, getPropertiesByRecordType

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Sourceable

getBranding, getBrandingIds, getLicense, getProvider, getProviderId

Method Detail

getFoundryRecord

FoundryRecord getFoundryRecord(Type foundryRecordType)
                               throws OperationFailedException

Gets the foundry record corresponding to the given Foundry record Type. This method is used to retrieve an object implementing the requested record. The foundryRecordType may be the Type returned in getRecordTypes() or any of its parents in a Type hierarchy where hasRecordType(foundryRecordType) is true .

Parameters:

foundryRecordType - the type of foundry record to retrieve

Returns:

the foundry record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - foundryRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(foundryRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.