tao-test/app/taoQtiItem/model/qti/metadata/MetadataValue.php

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<?php
/**
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; under version 2
* of the License (non-upgradable).
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*
* Copyright (c) 2014 (original work) Open Assessment Technologies SA (under the project TAO-PRODUCT);
*
*/
namespace oat\taoQtiItem\model\qti\metadata;
/**
* This interface has to be implemented by any software component which wants to represent
* metadata values e.g. Metadata found in an IMS Manifest File, an Ontology, ...
*
* @author Jérôme Bogaerts <jerome@taotesting.com>
*/
interface MetadataValue
{
/**
* Returns a descriptive path aiming at representing the hierarchy of concepts to be traversed
* to identify the metadata value.
*
* For instance, you would like to represent a metadata value about the name of a pet. Its path
* could be the following:
*
* <code>
* array('species', 'dogs', 'pet', 'name');
* </code>
*
* Any metadata value using these paths can be identified has names belonging to pets, which are
* animals among the various species in the world.
*
* @return array An array of strings representing the descriptive path to the metadata attribute.
*/
public function getPath();
/**
* Get the language of the intrinsic metadata value. If no particular language is specified,
* this method returns an empty string.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getLanguage();
/**
* Returns an identifier which is unique, describing to whom (e.g. a QTI Item, an Ontology Resource, ...) the intrinsic
* metadata value belongs to.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getResourceIdentifier();
/**
* Get the the intrinsic value of the metadata e.g. a pet name.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getValue();
}