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OSID Specifications
personnel package
Version 3.0.0
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Interfaceosid.personnel.RealmHierarchyDesignSession
Implementsosid.OsidSession
Description

This session manages a hierarchy of realms. Realms may be organized into a hierarchy for organizing or federating. A parent Realm includes all of the persons of its children such that a single root node contains all of the persons of the federation.

MethodgetRealmHierarchyId
Description

Gets the hierarchy Id associated with this session.

Returnosid.id.Idthe hierarchy Id associated with this session
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodgetRealmHierarchy
Description

Gets the hierarchy associated with this session.

Returnosid.hierarchy.Hierarchythe hierarchy associated with this session
ErrorsOPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodcanModifyRealmHierarchy
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
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodaddRootRealm
Description

Adds a root realm.

Parametersosid.id.IdrealmIdthe Id of a realm
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS realmId is already in hierarchy
NOT_FOUND realmId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT realmId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveRootRealm
Description

Removes a root realm.

Parametersosid.id.IdrealmIdthe Id of a realm
ErrorsNOT_FOUND realmId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT realmId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodaddChildRealm
Description

Adds a child to a realm.

Parametersosid.id.IdrealmIdthe Id of a realm
osid.id.IdchildIdthe Id of the new child
ErrorsALREADY_EXISTS realmId is already a parent of childId
NOT_FOUND realmId or childId not found
NULL_ARGUMENT realmId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildRealm
Description

Removes a child from a realm.

Parametersosid.id.IdrealmIdthe Id of a realm
osid.id.IdchildIdthe Id of the new child
ErrorsNOT_FOUND realmId not a parent of childId
NULL_ARGUMENT realmId or childId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.
MethodremoveChildRealms
Description

Removes all children from a realm.

Parametersosid.id.IdrealmIdthe Id of a realm
ErrorsNOT_FOUND realmId is not found
NULL_ARGUMENT realmId is null
OPERATION_FAILEDunable to complete request
PERMISSION_DENIEDauthorization failure
CompliancemandatoryThis method must be implemented.