answer
Returns the answer with the given name. Use this when the name is only known at run time, then check the answer's class or DecisionAnswer.kind to read its outcome.
Return
the answer with that name
Parameters
the question name
Throws
if this response has no answer with that name
Returns the outcome for the given question, typed by the question. The question does not have to be the same object that built the response. The answer must have the question's name and kind, and a choice answer's options or a rating answer's levels must equal the question's, ids and descriptions both.
An answer holds no instructions, so a question whose instructions were reworded still matches. For a proposition that means only the name and kind are checked.
Each question class fixes its result type: a PropositionQuestionSpec is a Question<PropositionResult>, a ChoiceQuestionSpec is a Question<ClassificationResult> and a RatingQuestionSpec is a Question<RatingResult>. The lookup only returns an outcome from the answer class that matches the question's class, so the outcome always has type R.
Return
the outcome of that question
Parameters
the question whose answer to read
Throws
if this response has no answer with the question's name, the answer is of another kind, or the answer's options or levels differ from the question's