org.osid.billing

Interface Category

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Identifiable, OsidObject

public interface Category
extends OsidObject

A Category is a group of Items.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
CategoryRecord	getCategoryRecord(Type categoryRecordType) Gets the category record corresponding to the given Category 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

getCategoryRecord

CategoryRecord getCategoryRecord(Type categoryRecordType)
                                 throws OperationFailedException

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

Parameters:

categoryRecordType - the type of category record to retrieve

Returns:

the category record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - categoryRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(categoryRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.