org.jscience.sociology
Class Role

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.sociology.Role

All Implemented Interfaces:

Named

Direct Known Subclasses:

Citizen, Defendant, EconomicAgent, Hobbyist, Locutor, Member, Patient, Plaintiff, ResponsibleIndividual, Subject, Voter, Witness

public class Role
extends java.lang.Object
implements Named

A class representing the current behavior/relation a Person has with its environment. Usually in pairs, for example client (student, customer, patient...) and server (teacher, waiter, doctor...) or triplets client, server and supervisor (administrator, manager...). There is sometimes another role which is not part of the process itself: the observer (narrator, passive audience...). Several other roles may be considered although you should try to fit them in the above categories when possible: mediator, slave... Think for example about all the roles of the individual that are in a theater: producer, director, actors, technicians, public... You may want not to assign the default roles but reproduce a more complex environment although you may not apply some models on them.

Field Summary

static int	CLIENT DOCUMENT ME!
static int	OBSERVER DOCUMENT ME!
static int	SERVER DOCUMENT ME!
static int	SUPERVISOR DOCUMENT ME!

Constructor Summary

Role(Individual individual, java.lang.String name, Situation situation, int kind)
Creates a new Role object.

Role(java.lang.String name, int kind)
Creates a new Role object.

Method Summary

Individual	getIndividual() DOCUMENT ME!
int	getKind() DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	getName() DOCUMENT ME!
Situation	getSituation() DOCUMENT ME!
protected void	setSituation(Situation situation) DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

CLIENT

public static final int CLIENT

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Constant Field Values

SERVER

public static final int SERVER

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SUPERVISOR

public static final int SUPERVISOR

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OBSERVER

public static final int OBSERVER

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Constructor Detail

Role

public Role(Individual individual,
            java.lang.String name,
            Situation situation,
            int kind)

Creates a new Role object.

Parameters:

individual - DOCUMENT ME!

name - DOCUMENT ME!

situation - DOCUMENT ME!

kind - DOCUMENT ME!

Role

public Role(java.lang.String name,
            int kind)

Creates a new Role object.

Parameters:

name - DOCUMENT ME!

kind - DOCUMENT ME!

Method Detail

getIndividual

public Individual getIndividual()

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Returns:

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getName

public java.lang.String getName()

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Specified by:

getName in interface Named

Returns:

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getSituation

public Situation getSituation()

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Returns:

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setSituation

protected void setSituation(Situation situation)

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Parameters:

situation - DOCUMENT ME!

Throws:

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getKind

public int getKind()

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Returns:

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