org.opengis.util
Interface NameSpace

@UML(identifier="NameSpace",
     specification=ISO_19103)
public interface NameSpace

A domain in which names given by character strings are defined.

Since:

GeoAPI 2.1

Author:

Bryce Nordgren (USDA), Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)

Method Summary

Set<GenericName>	getNames() Deprecated. Not implementable in a simple naming system. We may create a Register subclass (or something similar) later for this kind of job.
boolean	isGlobal() Indicates whether this namespace is a "top level" namespace.
GenericName	name() Represents the identifier of this namespace.

Method Detail

isGlobal

@UML(identifier="isGlobal",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
boolean isGlobal()

Indicates whether this namespace is a "top level" namespace. Global, or top-level namespaces are not contained within another namespace. There is no namespace called "global" or "root" which contains all of the top-level namespaces. Hence, this flag indicates whether the namespace has a parent.

Returns:

true if this namespace has no parent.

name

@UML(identifier="name",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
GenericName name()

Represents the identifier of this namespace. If the global attribute is true, indicating that this is a top level NameSpace, then the name should be a local name. If false, name should be a fully-qualified name where name.scope().isGlobal() == true.

Returns:

The identifier of this namespace.

getNames

@Deprecated
@UML(identifier="names",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
Set<GenericName> getNames()

Deprecated. Not implementable in a simple naming system. We may create a Register subclass (or something similar) later for this kind of job.

Returns the set of generic names registered with this namespace. Duplicate names are forbidden. The names may be either:

• A LocalName.
• A ScopedName with the following constraints:
  • All elements of the parsed names list except for the tail must refer to a NameSpace.
  • Each element of the parsed names list except for the head must be defined in the NameSpace referred to by the previous element.

Returns:

All generic names registered with this namespace.