Interface Credit

All Superinterfaces:
Browsable, Extensible, Identifiable, OsidObject, OsidRelationship, Temporal
public interface Credit extends OsidRelationship

A Credit relates a Resource with a reference to an Id.

Like all OsidObjects, Credit is managed by its OsidSessions and may not be accessed by concurrent processing threads.

  • Method Details

    • getReferenceId

      Id getReferenceId()
      Gets the Id of the referenced object.
      Returns:
      the reference Id
      Compliance:
      mandatory - This method must be implemented.

    • getResourceId

      Id getResourceId()
      Gets the Id of the resource in this credit.
      Returns:
      the Resource Id
      Compliance:
      mandatory - This method must be implemented.

    • getResource

      Resource getResource() throws OperationFailedException
      Gets the resource in this credit.
      Returns:
      the Resource
      Throws:
      OperationFailedException - unable to complete request
      Compliance:
      mandatory - This method must be implemented.

    • getCreditRecord

      CreditRecord getCreditRecord(Type creditRecordType) throws OperationFailedException
      Gets the record corresponding to the given Credit record Type.This method is used to retrieve an object implementing the requested record. The creditRecordType may be the Type returned in getRecordTypes() or any of its parents in a Type hierarchy where hasRecordType(creditRecordType) is true.
      Parameters:
      creditRecordType - the type of credit record to retrieve
      Returns:
      the credit record
      Throws:
      NullArgumentException - creditRecordType is null
      OperationFailedException - unable to complete request
      UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(creditRecordType) is false
      Compliance:
      mandatory - This method must be implemented.