org.deegree.feature
Interface FeatureCollection

All Superinterfaces:

Collection<Feature>, Feature, GMLObject, Iterable<Feature>, MatchableObject

All Known Subinterfaces:

StreamFeatureCollection

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFeatureCollection, GenericFeatureCollection

public interface FeatureCollection
extends Feature, Collection<Feature>

A feature collection is a collection of Feature instances.

Note that a FeatureCollection is a Feature itself, which complies to the common interpretation, e.g. in GML.

Version:

$Revision: 13814 $, $Date: 2008-09-02 20:28:13 +0200 (Di, 02 Sep 2008) $

Author:

Markus Schneider, last edited by: $Author: mschneider $

See Also:

Feature

Method Summary

FeatureCollection	getMembers(Filter filter) Returns the contained features that match the given Filter.
FeatureCollectionType	getType() Returns the type information for this feature collection.

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.feature.Feature

getEnvelope, getGeometryProperties, getId, getName, getProperties, getProperties, getProperties, getProperties, getProperty, getProperty, getPropertyValue, getPropertyValue, getPropertyValues, getPropertyValues, setId, setProperties, setProperties, setPropertyValue, setPropertyValue

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.filter.MatchableObject

getPropertyValues

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.gml.GMLObject

getGMLProperties

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Collection

add, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, isEmpty, iterator, remove, removeAll, retainAll, size, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

getType

FeatureCollectionType getType()

Returns the type information for this feature collection.

Specified by:

getType in interface Feature

Returns:

the type information, never null

getMembers

FeatureCollection getMembers(Filter filter)
                             throws FilterEvaluationException

Returns the contained features that match the given Filter.

Parameters:

filter - Filter to be applied, must not be null

Returns:

matching feature instances as a new FeatureCollection

Throws:

FilterEvaluationException - if an exception occurs during the evaluation of the Filter