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036
037 package org.deegree.model.feature.schema;
038
039 import java.net.URI;
040
041 import org.deegree.datatypes.QualifiedName;
042
043 /**
044 * The FeatureType interface is intended to provide details of the type of a Feature that are
045 * described as Feature Schema in the Abstract Specification's Essential Model, specifically the
046 * names and types of the properties associated with each instance of a Feature of the given
047 * FeatureType.
048 * <p>
049 * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
050 * </p>
051 *
052 * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
053 * @version $Revision: 18195 $ $Date: 2009-06-18 17:55:39 +0200 (Do, 18. Jun 2009) $
054 */
055 public interface FeatureType {
056
057 /**
058 * returns the name of the FeatureType
059 *
060 * @return name of the FeatureType
061 */
062 public QualifiedName getName();
063
064 /**
065 * Returns whether this feature type is abstract or not.
066 *
067 * @return true, if the feature type is abstract, false otherwise
068 */
069 public boolean isAbstract();
070
071 /**
072 * returns the namespace of the feature type (maybe null)
073 *
074 * @return the namespace of the feature type (maybe <code>null</code>)
075 */
076 public URI getNameSpace();
077
078 /**
079 * returns the location of the XML schema defintion assigned to a namespace
080 *
081 * @return the location of the XML schema defintion assigned to a namespace
082 */
083 public URI getSchemaLocation();
084
085 /**
086 * returns the name of the property a the passed index position
087 *
088 * @param index
089 * @return the name of the property a the passed index position
090 */
091 public QualifiedName getPropertyName( int index );
092
093 /**
094 * returns the properties of this feature type
095 *
096 * @return type properties
097 */
098 public PropertyType[] getProperties();
099
100 /**
101 * returns a property of this feature type identified by its name
102 *
103 * @param name
104 * name of the desired property
105 * @return one named property
106 */
107 public PropertyType getProperty( QualifiedName name );
108
109 /**
110 * returns the FeatureTypeProperties of type GEOMETRY
111 *
112 * @see org.deegree.datatypes.Types
113 * @return the FeatureTypeProperties of type GEOMETRY
114 */
115 public GeometryPropertyType[] getGeometryProperties();
116
117 /**
118 * returns true if the passed FeatureType equals this FeatureType. Two FeatureTypes are equal if
119 * they have the same qualified name
120 *
121 * @param featureType
122 *
123 * @return <code>true</code> if the passed FeatureType equals this FeatureType.
124 */
125 public boolean equals( FeatureType featureType );
126
127 }