org.osid.recognition

Interface Academy

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Federateable, Identifiable, OsidCatalog, OsidObject, Sourceable

public interface Academy
extends OsidCatalog

An Academy represents a collection of awards and conferrals. Like all OSID objects, a Academy is identified by its Id and any persisted references should use the Id.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AcademyRecord	getAcademyRecord(Type academyRecordType) Gets the academy record corresponding to the given Academy 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

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Sourceable

getBranding, getBrandingIds, getLicense, getProvider, getProviderId

Method Detail

getAcademyRecord

AcademyRecord getAcademyRecord(Type academyRecordType)
                               throws OperationFailedException

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

Parameters:

academyRecordType - the type of academy record to retrieve

Returns:

the academy record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - academyRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(academyRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.