MetadataRecord Class Reference

Public Member Functions
	addDescription ($metadataDescription, $replace=true)
&	getDescription ($applicationEntityId)
&	getDescriptions ()
	removeDescription ($applicationEntityId)
	setDescriptions (&$descriptions)

Data Fields
	$_descriptions = array()

Detailed Description

Class modeling a meta-data record (DCMI abstract model: an instance of a description set, RDF: a graph of several subject nodes with associated object nodes).

See also

MetadataProperty

MetadataDescription

Definition at line 21 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

Member Function Documentation

addDescription()

MetadataRecord::addDescription	(		$metadataDescription,
			$replace = true
	)

Add a meta-data description.

Parameters

$metadataDescription	MetadataDescription
$replace	whether to replace a description if a description for the same application entity instance already exists.

Returns

boolean true if a valid description was added, otherwise false

Definition at line 38 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

Referenced by setDescriptions().

getDescription()

& MetadataRecord::getDescription

(

$applicationEntityId

)

Get a specific description

Parameters

$applicationEntityId

string consisting of 'assocType:assocId'

Returns

boolean true if the description was found and removed, otherwise false

See also

MetadataRecord::getApplicationEntityIdFromMetadataDescription()

Definition at line 85 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

getDescriptions()

& MetadataRecord::getDescriptions

(

)

Get all descriptions

Returns

array statements

Definition at line 75 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

References $_descriptions.

removeDescription()

MetadataRecord::removeDescription

(

$applicationEntityId

)

Remove description.

Parameters

$applicationEntityId

string consisting of 'assocType:assocId'

Returns

boolean true if the description was found and removed, otherwise false

See also

MetadataRecord::getApplicationEntityIdFromMetadataDescription()

Definition at line 61 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

setDescriptions()

MetadataRecord::setDescriptions

(

&

$descriptions

)

Replace all descriptions at once. If one of the descriptions is invalid then the meta-data record will be empty after this operation.

Parameters

$descriptions

array descriptions

Returns

boolean true if all descriptions could be added, false otherwise

Definition at line 104 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

References addDescription().

Field Documentation

$_descriptions

array MetadataRecord::$_descriptions = array()

the MetadataDescriptions in this record

Definition at line 26 of file MetadataRecord.inc.php.

Referenced by getDescriptions().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• MetadataRecord.inc.php