Class Witness

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.social.sociology.Role

org.episteme.social.law.Witness

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Commented, ComprehensiveIdentification, Identified<Identification>, Named, Temporal<TimeCoordinate>

public class Witness
extends Role

Represents a witness in a lawsuit, who provides testimony based on what they observed. A witness can be associated with specific parties (plaintiffs or defendants) they are assisting.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Silvere Martin-Michiellot, Gemini AI (Google DeepMind)

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class Role

CLIENT, OBSERVER, SERVER, SUPERVISOR

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Witness(Individual individual, LawSuitSituation lawSuitSituation)	Creates a new Witness role for an individual.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Set<Role>	getClients()	Returns the set of parties (Plaintiffs or Defendants) that this witness is testifying for.
void	setClients(Set<Role> parties)	Sets the parties that this witness is testifying for.

Methods inherited from class Role

equals, getId, getIndividual, getKind, getSituation, getTraits, getWhen, hashCode, setKind, setTimestamp, toString

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface Commented

getComments, getTrait, setComments

Methods inherited from interface ComprehensiveIdentification

getName, getTrait, setName, setTrait

Constructor Details

Witness

public Witness(Individual individual,
 LawSuitSituation lawSuitSituation)

Creates a new Witness role for an individual.

Parameters:

individual - the individual taking on the role

lawSuitSituation - the lawsuit context

Method Details

getClients

public Set<Role> getClients()

Returns the set of parties (Plaintiffs or Defendants) that this witness is testifying for.

Returns:

a set of parties

setClients

public void setClients(Set<Role> parties)

Sets the parties that this witness is testifying for.

Parameters:

parties - a set of Roll objects representing the parties

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if parties is null or contains unauthorized roles