Retrieving the Type of an Object

If you have searched the Registry without specifying a particular object type, you can retrieve the type of the objects returned by the search. Use the RegistryObject.getObjectType method, which returns a Concept value. You can then use the Concept.getValue method to obtain the String value of the object type. The following code fragment uses these methods:

Concept objType = object.getObjectType();
System.out.println("Object type is " + objType.getValue());

The concept will be one of those in the canonical classification scheme ObjectType. For an example of this code, see JAXRSearchByName.java in the directory INSTALL/registry-samples/search-name/src.