Class PATHABLE

The PATHABLE class defines the pathing capabilities used by nearly all classes in the openEHR reference
model, mostly via inheritance of LOCATABLE. The defining characteristics of PATHABLE objects
are that they can locate child objects using paths, and they know their parent object in a compositional
hierarchy. The parent feature is defined as abstract in the model, and may be implemented in
any way convenient.

Operation parent

Parent of this node in a compositional hierarchy.

Declaration :

Uml : + parent() : PATHABLE
C++ : public: virtual PATHABLE * parent() const
Java : public PATHABLE parent()

Operation item_at_path

The item at a path (relative to this item)

Declaration :

Uml : + item_at_path(in a_path : String) : ANY
C++ : public: void * item_at_path()
Java : public Object item_at_path()

Operation items_at_path

List of items corresponding to a non-unique path.

Declaration :

Uml : + items_at_path(in a_path : String) : ANY
C++ : public: void * items_at_path()
Java : public Object items_at_path()

Stereotype: List

Operation path_exists

True if the path exists in the data with respect to the current item.

Declaration :

Uml : + path_exists(in a_path : String) : Boolean
C++ : public: bool path_exists()
Java : public boolean path_exists()

Operation path_unique

True if the path corresponds to a single item in the data.

Declaration :

Uml : + path_unique(in a_path : String) : Boolean
C++ : public: bool path_unique()
Java : public boolean path_unique()

Operation path_of_item

The path to an item relative to the root of this archetyped structure.

Declaration :

Uml : + path_of_item(in a_loc : PATHABLE) : String
C++ : public: string path_of_item()
Java : public String path_of_item()

Operation ~PATHABLE

Declaration :

Uml : + ~PATHABLE() :
C++ : public: virtual ~PATHABLE()