com.apelon.dts.client.association
Class ConceptAssociation

java.lang.Object
  com.apelon.dts.client.association.Association
      com.apelon.dts.client.association.QualifiedAssociation
          com.apelon.dts.client.association.ConceptAssociation

All Implemented Interfaces:

QualifiedObject

public class ConceptAssociation
extends QualifiedAssociation

ConceptAssociation relates a concept to another concept.

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003

Company: Apelon, Inc.

Since:

DTS 3.0.0

Version:

DTS 3.0.0

Author:

Apelon, Inc.

Constructor Summary

ConceptAssociation(AssociationType assocType, DTSConcept toConcept)
Constructs an association from the association type and "to" concept.

ConceptAssociation(DTSConcept fromConcept, AssociationType assocType)
Constructs an association from the "from" concept and association type.

ConceptAssociation(DTSConcept fromConcept, AssociationType assocType, DTSConcept toConcept)
Constructs a concept association from the "from" concept, association type, and "to" concept.

Method Summary

DTSConcept	getFromConcept() Get "from" concept of association.
DTSConcept	getToConcept() Get "to" concept of association.
void	setFromConcept(DTSConcept fromConcept) Set "from" concept of association.
void	setToConcept(DTSConcept toConcept) Set "to" concept of association.
String	toString() Returns description of concept association

Methods inherited from class com.apelon.dts.client.association.QualifiedAssociation

addQualifier, containsQualifier, deleteQualifier, getFetchedQualifiers, getToItem, isLocalAddition, setFromItem, setLocalAddition, setToItem

Methods inherited from class com.apelon.dts.client.association.Association

equals, getAssociationType, getFromItem, getName, getValue, hashCode, setAssociationType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConceptAssociation

public ConceptAssociation(DTSConcept fromConcept,
                          AssociationType assocType,
                          DTSConcept toConcept)

Constructs a concept association from the "from" concept, association type, and "to" concept.

Parameters:

fromConcept - the "from" concept of the association.

assocType - the association type

toConcept - the "to" concept of the association.

ConceptAssociation

public ConceptAssociation(AssociationType assocType,
                          DTSConcept toConcept)

Constructs an association from the association type and "to" concept. This would normally be used to construct an association that is part of a DTSConcept. When using this constructor you will also need to issue setFromConcept(com.apelon.dts.client.concept.DTSConcept) before using the object.

Parameters:

assocType - the association type

toConcept - the to concept of the association

ConceptAssociation

public ConceptAssociation(DTSConcept fromConcept,
                          AssociationType assocType)

Constructs an association from the "from" concept and association type. This would normally be used to construct an inverse association that is part of a DTSConcept. When using this constructor you will also need to issue setToConcept(com.apelon.dts.client.concept.DTSConcept) before using the object.

Parameters:

fromConcept - the from concept of the association

assocType - the association type

Method Detail

setFromConcept

public void setFromConcept(DTSConcept fromConcept)

Set "from" concept of association.

Parameters:

fromConcept - from concept of association

getFromConcept

public DTSConcept getFromConcept()

Get "from" concept of association.

Returns:

ConceptAssociation's "from" concept

setToConcept

public void setToConcept(DTSConcept toConcept)

Set "to" concept of association.

Parameters:

toConcept - to concept of association

getToConcept

public DTSConcept getToConcept()

Get "to" concept of association.

Returns:

ConceptAssociation's "to" concept

toString

public String toString()

Returns description of concept association

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

description.