Retrieving the Name or Description of an Object

The name and description of an object are both InternationalString objects. An InternationalString object contains a set of LocalizedString objects. The methods RegistryObject.getName and RegistryObject.getDescription return the LocalizedString object for the default locale. You can then retrieve the String value of the LocalizedString object. The following code fragment uses these methods:

String name = ro.getName().getValue();
String description = ro.getDescription().getValue();

Call the getName or getDescription method with a Locale argument to retrieve the value for a particular locale.

Many of the examples contain private utility methods that retrieve the name, description, and unique identifier for an object. See, for example, JAXRGetMyObjects.java in the directory <INSTALL>/registry/samples/get-objects/src.