org.tmapi.core
Interface Role

All Superinterfaces:

Construct, Reifiable, Typed

public interface Role
extends Reifiable, Typed

Represents an association role item.

Version:

$Rev: 102 $ - $Date: 2009-03-16 22:41:32 +0100 (Mo, 16 Mrz 2009) $

Author:

The TMAPI Project

Method Summary

Association	getParent() Returns the Association to which this role belongs.
Topic	getPlayer() Returns the topic playing this role.
void	setPlayer(Topic player) Sets the role player.

Methods inherited from interface org.tmapi.core.Reifiable

getReifier, setReifier

Methods inherited from interface org.tmapi.core.Typed

getType, setType

Methods inherited from interface org.tmapi.core.Construct

addItemIdentifier, equals, getId, getItemIdentifiers, getTopicMap, hashCode, remove, removeItemIdentifier

Method Detail

getParent

Association getParent()

Returns the Association to which this role belongs.

Specified by:

getParent in interface Construct

Returns:

The association to which this role belongs.

See Also:

Construct.getParent()

getPlayer

Topic getPlayer()

Returns the topic playing this role.

Returns:

The role player.

setPlayer

void setPlayer(Topic player)

Sets the role player. Any previous role player will be overridden by player.

Parameters:

player - The topic which should play this role.

Throws:

ModelConstraintException - If the player is null.