edu.northwestern.at.monk.model
Class AuthorCriterion

java.lang.Object
  edu.northwestern.at.monk.model.SearchCriterion
      edu.northwestern.at.monk.model.CoreObjectCriterion
          edu.northwestern.at.monk.model.AuthorCriterion

public class AuthorCriterion
extends CoreObjectCriterion

An author search criterion.

See Also:

MONK Datastore Overview, Licensing Agreement

Constructor Summary

AuthorCriterion(Author... authors)
Creates a new author search criterion.

AuthorCriterion(java.util.Collection<?> values)
Creates a new author search criterion.

AuthorCriterion(java.lang.String... tags)
Creates a new author search criterion.

Method Summary

Author	getAuthor() Gets the author.
java.util.Collection<Author>	getAuthors() Gets the authors.
java.lang.String	getTag() Gets the tag.
java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>	getTags() Gets the tags.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AuthorCriterion

public AuthorCriterion(java.lang.String... tags)
                throws ModelException

Creates a new author search criterion.

Parameters:

tags - Tags.

Throws:

ModelException -
No such author tag: tag

AuthorCriterion

public AuthorCriterion(Author... authors)
                throws ModelException

Creates a new author search criterion.

Parameters:

authors - Authors.

Throws:

ModelException -
Should never be thrown.

AuthorCriterion

public AuthorCriterion(java.util.Collection<?> values)
                throws ModelException

Creates a new author search criterion.

Parameters:

values - Collection of tags and/or authors.

Throws:

ModelException -
No such author tag: tag
Collection element neither String nor Author.

Method Detail

getAuthors

public java.util.Collection<Author> getAuthors()

Gets the authors.

Returns:

Collection of authors, or null if none.

getAuthor

public Author getAuthor()

Gets the author.

Returns:

Author, or null if none or more than one.

getTags

public java.util.Collection<java.lang.String> getTags()

Gets the tags.

Returns:

The tags, or null if none.

getTag

public java.lang.String getTag()

Gets the tag.

Returns:

Tag, or null if none or more than one.