001    //$HeadURL: svn+ssh://rbezema@svn.wald.intevation.org/deegree/base/tags/2.1/src/org/deegree/model/feature/FeatureCollection.java $
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043    package org.deegree.model.feature;
044    
045    import java.util.Iterator;
046    
047    /**
048     * 
049     * 
050     * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
051     * @author last edited by: $Author: bezema $
052     * 
053     * @version 1.0. $Revision: 6259 $, $Date: 2007-03-20 10:15:15 +0100 (Di, 20 Mär 2007) $
054     * 
055     * @since 1.0
056     */
057    public interface FeatureCollection extends Feature {
058        /**
059         * returns the feature at the submitted index
060         */
061        public Feature getFeature( int index );
062    
063        /**
064         * returns the feature identified by it's id
065         */
066        public Feature getFeature( String id );
067    
068        /**
069         * returns an array of all features
070         */
071        public Feature[] toArray();
072    
073        /**
074         * returns an <tt>Iterator</tt> on the feature contained in a collection
075         * 
076         * @return an <tt>Iterator</tt> on the feature contained in a collection
077         */
078        public Iterator iterator();
079    
080        /**
081         * adds a feature to the collection
082         */
083        public void add( Feature feature );
084    
085        /**
086         * adds a list of features to the collection
087         */
088        public void addAll( Feature[] feature );
089    
090        /**
091         * adds a list of features to the collection
092         */
093        public void addAll( FeatureCollection feature );
094    
095        /**
096         * removes the submitted feature from the collection
097         */
098        public Feature remove( Feature feature );
099    
100        /**
101         * removes the feature at the submitted index from the collection
102         */
103        public Feature remove( int index );
104    
105        /**
106         * removes the feature that is assigned to the submitted id. The removed feature will be
107         * returned. If no valid feature could be found null will be returned
108         */
109        public Feature remove( String id );
110    
111        /**
112         * returns the number of features within the collection
113         */
114        public int size();
115    
116    }
117    
118    /***************************************************************************************************
119     * <code>
120     Changes to this class. What the people have been up to:
121     $Log$
122     Revision 1.10  2007/02/02 12:20:52  wanhoff
123     fixed Javadoc @return tag and footer
124    
125     Revision 1.9  2006/07/12 14:46:19  poth
126     comment footer added
127    
128     </code>
129     **************************************************************************************************/