org.osid.assessment

Interface Answer

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Identifiable, OsidObject

public interface Answer
extends OsidObject

An Answer represents the question portion of an assessment item. Like all OSID objects, an Answer is identified by its Id and any persisted references should use the Id.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AnswerRecord	getAnswerRecord(Type answerRecordType) Gets the answer record corresponding to the given Answer 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

Method Detail

getAnswerRecord

AnswerRecord getAnswerRecord(Type answerRecordType)
                             throws OperationFailedException

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

Parameters:

answerRecordType - the type of the record to retrieve

Returns:

the answer record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - answerRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(answerRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.