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Interfaceosid.course.CourseOfferingQuerySession
Implementsosid.OsidSession
Description

This session provides methods for searching among CourseOffering objects. The search query is constructed using the CourseOfferingQuery.

This session defines views that offer differing behaviors for searching.

  • federated course catalog view: searches include course offerings in course catalogs of which this course catalog is an ancestor in the course catalog hierarchy
  • isolated course catalog view: searches are restricted to course offerings in this course catalog

Course Offerings may have a query record indicated by their respective query record types. The query record is accessed via the CourseOfferingQuery.

MethodgetCourseCatalogId
Description

Gets the CourseCatalog Id associated with this session.

Returnosid.id.Idthe CourseCatalog Id associated with this session
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodgetCourseCatalog
Description

Gets the CourseCatalog associated with this session.

Returnosid.course.CourseCatalogthe course catalog
ErrorsOPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodcanSearchCourseOfferings
Description

Tests if this user can perform CourseOffering lookups. A return of true does not guarantee successful authorization. A return of false indicates that it is known all methods in this session will result in a PERMISSION_DENIED. This is intended as a hint to an application that may not offer lookup operations to unauthorized users.

Returnboolean false if search methods are not authorized, true otherwise
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethoduseFederatedCourseCatalogView
Description

Federates the view for methods in this session. A federated view will include course offerings in course catalog which are children of this course catalog in the course catalog hierarchy.

CompliancemandatoryThis method is must be implemented.
MethoduseIsolatedCourseCatalogView
Description

Isolates the view for methods in this session. An isolated view restricts lookups to this course catalog only.

CompliancemandatoryThis method is must be implemented.
MethodgetCourseOfferingQuery
Description

Gets a course offering query.

Returnosid.course.CourseOfferingQuerythe course offering query.
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodgetCourseOfferingsByQuery
Description

Gets a list of CourseOfferings matching the given course offering query.

Parametersosid.course.CourseOfferingQuerycourseQuerythe course offering query
Returnosid.course.CourseOfferingListthe returned CourseOfferingList
ErrorsNULL_ARGUMENT courseOfferingQuery is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
UNSUPPORTED courseOfferingQuery is not of this service
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.