com.apelon.dts.client.association
Class TermAssociation

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

QualifiedObject

public class TermAssociation
extends QualifiedAssociation

TermAssociation relates a term to another term.

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003

Company: Apelon, Inc.

Since:

DTS 3.0.0

Version:

DTS 3.0.0

Author:

Apelon, Inc.

Constructor Summary

TermAssociation()

TermAssociation(AssociationType assocType, Term toTerm)
Constructs an association from the association type and "to" term.

TermAssociation(Term fromTerm, AssociationType assocType)
Constructs an association from the "from" term and association type.

TermAssociation(Term fromTerm, AssociationType assocType, Term toTerm)
Constructs an association from the "from" term, association type, and "to" term.

Method Summary

Term	getFromTerm() Get "from" term of association.
Term	getToTerm() Get "to" term of association.
void	setFromTerm(Term fromTerm) Set "from" term of association.
void	setToTerm(Term toTerm) Set "to" term of 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, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TermAssociation

public TermAssociation()

TermAssociation

public TermAssociation(Term fromTerm,
                       AssociationType assocType,
                       Term toTerm)

Constructs an association from the "from" term, association type, and "to" term.

Parameters:

fromTerm - the "from" term of the association.

assocType - the association type.

toTerm - the "to" term of the association.

TermAssociation

public TermAssociation(AssociationType assocType,
                       Term toTerm)

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

Parameters:

assocType - the association type

toTerm - the to term of the association

TermAssociation

public TermAssociation(Term fromTerm,
                       AssociationType assocType)

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

Parameters:

fromTerm - the from term of the association

assocType - the association type

Method Detail

setFromTerm

public void setFromTerm(Term fromTerm)

Set "from" term of association.

Parameters:

fromTerm - from term of association

getFromTerm

public Term getFromTerm()

Get "from" term of association.

Returns:

TermAssociation's "from" term

setToTerm

public void setToTerm(Term toTerm)

Set "to" term of association.

Parameters:

toTerm - to term of association

getToTerm

public Term getToTerm()

Get "to" term of association.

Returns:

TermAssociation's "to" term