DICE API Documentation/com.embabel.dice.spi/AuthorityTier

AuthorityTier

enum AuthorityTier : Enum<AuthorityTier>

How authoritative the source backing a proposition is.

Tiers are declared in descending authority, so the enum ordinal is a built-in ranking: a lower ordinal means higher authority. PRIMARY (ordinal 0) is the most authoritative; UNKNOWN (the highest ordinal) is the least and is the fail-safe default when authority cannot be determined.

Entries

PRIMARY

First-party / directly attributable source (e.g. a connector reference).

SECONDARY

Named external source such as a URI or file.

DERIVED

Indirect or derived source (e.g. content-addressed material, abstractions).

UNKNOWN

Authority could not be determined; the lowest-authority fail-safe default.

Properties

name

val name: String

ordinal

val ordinal: Int

Functions

valueOf

fun valueOf(value: String): AuthorityTier

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

values

fun values(): Array<AuthorityTier>

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they're declared.