edu.umass.cs.surveyman.analyses

Interface IQuestionResponse

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DynamicAnalysis.QuestionResponse

public interface IQuestionResponse
extends Comparable

This is the data structure that holds a respondent's answer to a question.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
SurveyDatum	getAnswer() Convenience method for getting a single answer, if this question is marked exclusive (i.e., radio button).
List<SurveyDatum>	getAnswers() Convenience method for getting a list of answers, if the question is marked not exclusive (i.e., checkbox).
int	getIndexSeen() Gets the index at which the question in this question response was seen.
List<OptTuple>	getOpts() Gets the list of answers the respondent provided for this question.
Question	getQuestion() Gets the question associated with this IQuestionResponse

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getQuestion

Question getQuestion()

Gets the question associated with this IQuestionResponse

Returns:

A Question object

getOpts

List<OptTuple> getOpts()

Gets the list of answers the respondent provided for this question. For radio button questions, this will hold exactly one OptTuple. For checkbox questions, it will hold more than one.

Returns:

A list of OptTuples, corresponding to answer data.

getIndexSeen

int getIndexSeen()

Gets the index at which the question in this question response was seen.

Returns:

A 0-based integer index.

getAnswer

SurveyDatum getAnswer()
                      throws SurveyException

Convenience method for getting a single answer, if this question is marked exclusive (i.e., radio button).

Returns:

The component corresponding to the respondent's answer.

Throws:

SurveyException - if this question is not marked exclusive.

getAnswers

List<SurveyDatum> getAnswers()
                             throws SurveyException

Convenience method for getting a list of answers, if the question is marked not exclusive (i.e., checkbox).

Returns:

A list of Components corresponding to the respondent's answers.

Throws:

SurveyException - if this question is marked exclusive.