org.apache.sis.metadata.iso.content

Class AbstractContentInformation

Object

AbstractMetadata

ModifiableMetadata

ISOMetadata

AbstractContentInformation

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Emptiable, LenientComparable, IdentifiedObject, ContentInformation

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultCoverageDescription, DefaultFeatureCatalogueDescription

public class AbstractContentInformation
extends ISOMetadata
implements ContentInformation

Description of the content of a resource.

Limitations:

• Instances of this class are not synchronized for multi-threading. Synchronization, if needed, is caller's responsibility.
• Serialized objects of this class are not guaranteed to be compatible with future Apache SIS releases. Serialization support is appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running the same version of Apache SIS. For long term storage, use XML instead.

Since:

0.3

See Also:

Serialized Form

Defined in the sis-metadata module

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ISOMetadata

identifiers

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractContentInformation() Constructs an initially empty content information.
AbstractContentInformation(ContentInformation object) Constructs a new instance initialized with the values from the specified metadata object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static AbstractContentInformation	castOrCopy(ContentInformation object) Returns a SIS metadata implementation with the values of the given arbitrary implementation.

Methods inherited from class ISOMetadata

freeze, get­Identifier­Map, get­Identifiers, get­Standard

Methods inherited from class ModifiableMetadata

check­Write­Permission, clone, collection­Type, copy­Collection, copy­List, copy­Set, is­Modifiable, non­Null­Collection, non­Null­List, non­Null­Set, singleton, unmodifiable, write­Collection, write­List, write­Set

Methods inherited from class AbstractMetadata

as­Map, as­Tree­Table, equals, equals, get­Interface, hash­Code, is­Empty, prune, to­String

Methods inherited from class Object

finalize, get­Class, notify, notify­All, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractContentInformation

public AbstractContentInformation()

Constructs an initially empty content information.

AbstractContentInformation

public AbstractContentInformation(ContentInformation object)

Constructs a new instance initialized with the values from the specified metadata object. This is a shallow copy constructor, since the other metadata contained in the given object are not recursively copied.

Parameters:

object - the metadata to copy values from, or null if none.

See Also:

cast­Or­Copy(Content­Information)

Method Detail

castOrCopy

public static AbstractContentInformation castOrCopy(ContentInformation object)

Returns a SIS metadata implementation with the values of the given arbitrary implementation. This method performs the first applicable action in the following choices:

• If the given object is null, then this method returns null.
• Otherwise if the given object is an instance of Feature­Catalogue­Description or Coverage­Description, then this method delegates to the cast­Or­Copy(…) method of the corresponding SIS subclass. Note that if the given object implements more than one of the above-cited interfaces, then the cast­Or­Copy(…) method to be used is unspecified.
• Otherwise if the given object is already an instance of Abstract­Content­Information, then it is returned unchanged.
• Otherwise a new Abstract­Content­Information instance is created using the copy constructor and returned. Note that this is a shallow copy operation, since the other metadata contained in the given object are not recursively copied.

Parameters:

object - the object to get as a SIS implementation, or null if none.

Returns:

a SIS implementation containing the values of the given object (may be the given object itself), or null if the argument was null.