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offering package
Version 3.0.0
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Interfaceosid.offering.CatalogueHierarchyDesignSession
Implementsosid.OsidSession
Description

This session manages a hierarchy of catalogues. Catalogues may be organized into a hierarchy for organizing or federating. A parent Catalogue includes all of the canonical units of its children such that a single root node contains all of the canonical units of the federation.

MethodgetCatalogueHierarchyId
Description

Gets the hierarchy Id associated with this session.

Returnosid.id.Idthe hierarchy Id associated with this session
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodgetCatalogueHierarchy
Description

Gets the hierarchy associated with this session.

Returnosid.hierarchy.Hierarchythe hierarchy associated with this session
ErrorsOPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodcanModifyCatalogueHierarchy
Description

Tests if this user can change the hierarchy. A return of true does not guarantee successful authorization. A return of false indicates that it is known performing any update will result in a PERMISSION_DENIED. This is intended as a hint to an application that may opt not to offer these operations to an unauthorized user.

Returnboolean false if changing this hierarchy is not authorized, true otherwise
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodaddRootCatalogue
Description

Adds a root catalogue.

Parametersosid.id.IdcatalogueIdthe Id of a catalogue
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS catalogueId is already in hierarchy
NOT_FOUND catalogueId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT catalogueId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveRootCatalogue
Description

Removes a root catalogue.

Parametersosid.id.IdcatalogueIdthe Id of a catalogue
ErrorsNOT_FOUND catalogueId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT catalogueId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodaddChildCatalogue
Description

Adds a child to a catalogue.

Parametersosid.id.IdcatalogueIdthe Id of a catalogue
osid.id.IdchildIdthe Id of the new child
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS catalogueId is already a parent of childId
NOT_FOUND catalogueId or childId not found
NULL_ARGUMENT catalogueId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildCatalogue
Description

Removes a child from a catalogue.

Parametersosid.id.IdcatalogueIdthe Id of a catalogue
osid.id.IdchildIdthe Id of the new child
ErrorsNOT_FOUND catalogueId not a parent of childId
NULL_ARGUMENT catalogueId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildCatalogues
Description

Removes all children from a catalogue.

Parametersosid.id.IdcatalogueIdthe Id of a catalogue
ErrorsNOT_FOUND catalogueId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT catalogueId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.