001 //$HeadURL: svn+ssh://jwilden@svn.wald.intevation.org/deegree/base/branches/2.5_testing/src/org/deegree/model/feature/schema/FeatureType.java $ 002 /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 003 This file is part of deegree, http://deegree.org/ 004 Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by: 005 Department of Geography, University of Bonn 006 and 007 lat/lon GmbH 008 009 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 010 the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free 011 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) 012 any later version. 013 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 014 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS 015 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more 016 details. 017 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 018 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 019 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 020 021 Contact information: 022 023 lat/lon GmbH 024 Aennchenstr. 19, 53177 Bonn 025 Germany 026 http://lat-lon.de/ 027 028 Department of Geography, University of Bonn 029 Prof. Dr. Klaus Greve 030 Postfach 1147, 53001 Bonn 031 Germany 032 http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/deegree/ 033 034 e-mail: info@deegree.org 035 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 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 }