uk.ac.cam.cl.databases.moviedb.model

Class BiographyItem

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.cam.cl.databases.moviedb.model.BiographyItem

Direct Known Subclasses:

Role, ScriptWriter

public class BiographyItem
extends Object

A BiographyItem appears in various fields of a Person object, and establishes a link to a movie on which that person worked. Thus, the movie is one item that this person would list on their biography (or filmography).

If the person was an actor or actress on a movie, Role (a subclass of BiographyItem) is used instead. If the person was a writer, ScriptWriter (another subclass) is used. For all other ways that a person can be credited on a movie, this class is used.

This object does not have the full information about the movie on which the person worked -- it only has the ID (getMovieId()) and the title (getTitle()). If you need to find more properties of the movie, you can use MovieDB.getMovieById(int) to fetch the full Movie object.

When you look at a Movie object, the people who worked on that movie are given as lists of CreditPerson objects. So CreditPerson is like BiographyItem, but in the opposite direction (from a movie to a person).

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BiographyItem()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getMovieId() Gets the unique numerical ID of the movie on which the person worked.
String	getNote() Gets an informational attribute about the job that this person did on this movie, or about how they were credited.
String	getTitle() Gets the title of the movie on which the person worked.
String	toString() Generates a JSON string representing this BiographyItem.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BiographyItem

public BiographyItem()

Method Detail

getMovieId

public int getMovieId()

Gets the unique numerical ID of the movie on which the person worked. See Movie.getId() for more information about IDs.

getTitle

public String getTitle()

Gets the title of the movie on which the person worked. See Movie.getTitle() for more information about titles.

getNote

public String getNote()

Gets an informational attribute about the job that this person did on this movie, or about how they were credited. This is usually a string in parantheses, for example "(project manager)".

toString

public String toString()

Generates a JSON string representing this BiographyItem.

Overrides:

toString in class Object