org.osid.recognition

Interface Award

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Identifiable, OsidObject

public interface Award
extends OsidObject

An Award is something that can be conferred.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AwardRecord	getAwardRecord(Type awardRecordType) Gets the award record corresponding to the given Award 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

getAwardRecord

AwardRecord getAwardRecord(Type awardRecordType)
                           throws OperationFailedException

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

Parameters:

awardRecordType - the type of award record to retrieve

Returns:

the award record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - awardRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(awardRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.