org.deegree.model.spatialschema
Interface Ring

All Superinterfaces:

Geometry, OrientableCurve, OrientablePrimitive, Primitive, java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

RingImpl

public interface Ring
extends OrientableCurve

Version:

$Revision: 18195 $, $Date: 2009-06-18 17:55:39 +0200 (Do, 18 Jun 2009) $

Author:

Andreas Poth, last edited by: $Author: mschneider $

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.deegree.model.spatialschema.Geometry

BUFFER_CAP_BUTT, BUFFER_CAP_ROUND, BUFFER_CAP_SQUARE

Method Summary

CurveSegment	getAsCurveSegment()
CurveSegment[]	getCurveSegments()
Position[]	getPositions()
boolean	isCycle()
boolean	isSimple()

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.model.spatialschema.OrientableCurve

getCurveBoundary

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.model.spatialschema.OrientablePrimitive

getOrientation, setOrientation

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.model.spatialschema.Geometry

contains, contains, difference, distance, getBoundary, getBuffer, getBuffer, getCentroid, getConvexHull, getCoordinateDimension, getCoordinateSystem, getDimension, getEnvelope, getTolerance, intersection, intersects, isEmpty, isWithinDistance, setTolerance, translate, union

Method Detail

isCycle

boolean isCycle()

Returns:

true because a ring is always a cycle

isSimple

boolean isSimple()

Returns:

true because a ring is always a simple

getPositions

Position[] getPositions()

Returns:

all positions the builds the ring

getAsCurveSegment

CurveSegment getAsCurveSegment()
                               throws GeometryException

Returns:

the ring as an instance of CurveSegment

Throws:

GeometryException

getCurveSegments

CurveSegment[] getCurveSegments()

Returns:

CurveSegments a Ring is build from