[topicmapmail] RE: Can you help with XTMSerializer ??

[Lars Heuer]

Hi Darina,

[...]
> I do use org.tmapi.index in my utility methods, but I cannot see an
> index method that can directly return the name of a topic within a
> scope, e.g. the unconstrained scope - I presume that this is the

No, you can only query either all ScopedObjects which do not have a
scope (unconstrained scope) or TopicNames by value and type. There is
no possibilty to query only names in a particular scope.

> 'primary topic name' that the user uses as a topic label. I am using the following method:

>         public static String getTopicDisplayName(Topic t, TopicMap tm)
>                         throws Exception {
[...]
> Is there a more direct way?

No, unfortunately not. But I think there is no reason why the method
should (or can) throw an exception.

Best regards,
Lars
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