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journaling package
Version 3.1.0
Interfaceosid.journaling.JournalHierarchyDesignSession
Implementsosid.OsidSession
Used Byosid.journaling.JournalingManager
osid.journaling.JournalingProxyManager
Description

This session manages a hierarchy of journals. Journals may be organized into a hierarchy for organizing or federating. A parent Journal includes all of the journal entries of its children such that a single root node contains all of the journal entries of the federation.

MethodgetJournalHierarchyId
Description

Gets the hierarchy Id associated with this session.

Returnosid.id.Id the hierarchy Id associated with this session
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodgetJournalHierarchy
Description

Gets the hierarchy associated with this session.

Returnosid.hierarchy.Hierarchy the hierarchy associated with this session
ErrorsOPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodcanModifyJournalHierarchy
Description

Tests if this user can change the hierarchy. A return of true does not guarantee successful authorization. A return of false indicates that it is known performing any update will result in a PERMISSION_DENIED. This is intended as a hint to an application that may opt not to offer these operations to an unauthorized user.

Returnboolean false if changing this hierarchy is not authorized, true otherwise
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodaddRootJournal
Description

Adds a root journal.

Parametersosid.id.IdjournalId the Id of a journal
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS journalId is already in hierarchy
NOT_FOUND journalId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT journalId is null
OPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodremoveRootJournal
Description

Removes a root journal.

Parametersosid.id.IdjournalId the Id of a journal
ErrorsNOT_FOUND journalId is not a root
NULL_ARGUMENT journalId is null
OPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodaddChildJournal
Description

Adds a child to a journal.

Parametersosid.id.IdjournalId the Id of a journal
osid.id.IdchildId the Id of the new child
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS journalId is already a parent of childId
NOT_FOUND journalId or childId not found
NULL_ARGUMENT journalId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildJournal
Description

Removes a child from a journal.

Parametersosid.id.IdjournalId the Id of a journal
osid.id.IdchildId the Id of the new child
ErrorsNOT_FOUND journalId not a parent of childId
NULL_ARGUMENT journalId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildJournals
Description

Removes all children from a journal.

Parametersosid.id.IdjournalId the Id of a journal
ErrorsNOT_FOUND journalId not found
NULL_ARGUMENT journalId is null
OPERATION_FAILED unable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIED authorization failure
Compliancemandatory This method must be implemented.