org.geotools.data
Class FileDataStoreFinder

Object
  FileDataStoreFinder

public class FileDataStoreFinder
extends Object

Most of this code was copied from DataStoreFinder. See the Documentation there for details.

This searches for DataStores which support a singular file parsed in a particular file format.

Author:

dzwiers

See Also:

DataStoreFinder

Field Summary

protected static Logger

LOGGER The logger for the filter module.

Method Summary

static Iterator<FileDataStoreFactorySpi>	getAvailableDataStores() Returns an iterator of FileDataStoreFactorySpi to allow for the easy creation of a FileDataStore
static Set<String>	getAvailableFileExtentions() Go through each file DataStore and check what file extentions are supported.
static FileDataStore	getDataStore(File file) Checks each available datasource implementation in turn and returns the first one which claims to support the given file..
static FileDataStore	getDataStore(URL url) Checks each available datasource implementation in turn and returns the first one which claims to support the resource identified by the params object.
static FileDataStoreFactorySpi	getDataStoreFactory(String extension) Used to look up a FileDataStoreFactorySpi by extension.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

LOGGER

protected static final Logger LOGGER

The logger for the filter module.

Method Detail

getDataStore

public static FileDataStore getDataStore(File file)
                                  throws IOException

Checks each available datasource implementation in turn and returns the first one which claims to support the given file..

Parameters:

file - the file

Returns:

The first datasource which claims to process the required resource, returns null if none can be found.

Throws:

IOException - If a suitable loader can be found, but it can not be attached to the specified resource without errors.

getDataStore

public static FileDataStore getDataStore(URL url)
                                  throws IOException

Checks each available datasource implementation in turn and returns the first one which claims to support the resource identified by the params object.

Parameters:

url - URL for the input resource

Returns:

The first datasource which claims to process the required resource, returns null if none can be found.

Throws:

IOException - If a suitable loader can be found, but it can not be attached to the specified resource without errors.

getDataStoreFactory

public static FileDataStoreFactorySpi getDataStoreFactory(String extension)

Used to look up a FileDataStoreFactorySpi by extension.

Parameters:

extension - Extension such as "shp"

Returns:

FileDataStoreFactorySpi

getAvailableDataStores

public static Iterator<FileDataStoreFactorySpi> getAvailableDataStores()

Returns an iterator of FileDataStoreFactorySpi to allow for the easy creation of a FileDataStore

See Also:

FileDataStoreFactorySpi, FileDataStore

getAvailableFileExtentions

public static Set<String> getAvailableFileExtentions()

Go through each file DataStore and check what file extentions are supported.

Returns:

Set of supported file extensions