Summary
OsidManagers are OsidManagers are the top level service endpoint interfaces into an OSID Provider.
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The specification groups the identity and support methods into OsidProfiles which are extended to become osidan OsidManager.OsidManager hello
Example
This is an example subset of the Learning OSID where two of the OsidSessions manage retrieval and querying of learning objectives.
| Method | supportsObjectiveLookup | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Tests if an objective lookup service is supported. An objective lookup service defines methods to access objectives. | ||
| Return | boolean | true if objective lookup is supported, false otherwise | |
| Compliance | mandatory | This method must be implemented. | |
| Method | getObjectiveLookupSession | ||
| Description | Gets the OsidSession associated with the objective lookup service. | ||
| Return | osid.learning.ObjectiveLookupSession | an ObjectiveLookupSession | |
Errors | OPERATION_FAILED | unable to complete request | |
| UNIMPLEMENTED | supportsObjectiveLookup() is false | ||
| Compliance | optional | This method must be implemented if supportsObjectiveLookup() is true. | |
Method | supportsObjectiveQuery | ||
| Description | Tests if an objective query service is supported. | ||
| Return | boolean | true if objective query is supported, false otherwise | |
| Compliance | mandatory | This method must be implemented. | |
| Method | getObjectiveQuerySession | ||
| Description | Gets the OsidSession associated with the objective query service. | ||
| Return | osid.learning.ObjectiveQuerySession | an ObjectiveQuerySession | |
| Errors | OPERATION_FAILED | unable to complete request | |
| UNIMPLEMENTED | supportsObjectiveQuery() is false | ||
| Compliance | optional | This method must be implemented if supportsObjectiveQuery() is true. | |
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