Package org.geotools.api.feature.type

Interface AssociationType

All Superinterfaces:

PropertyType

All Known Implementing Classes:

AssociationTypeImpl

public interface AssociationType
extends PropertyType

The type of an association; used to describe kind of relationship between two entities.

The notion of an "association" is similar to that of an association in UML and is used to model a relationship among two attributes. See the javadoc for Association for more info on the semantics of associations.

An association is used to relate one attribute to another. The type of the association specifies the type of the related attribute with the getRelatedType() method.

Author:

Jody Garnett, Refractions Research, Inc., Justin Deoliveira, The Open Planning Project

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Class<?>	getBinding()	Override of PropertyType.getBinding() which specifies that this method should return getRelatedType().getBinding(), that is it returns the binding of the related type.
AttributeType	getRelatedType()	The attribute type of the related attribute in the association.
AssociationType	getSuper()	Override of PropertyType.getSuper() which type narrows to AssociationType.

Methods inherited from interface PropertyType

equals, getDescription, getName, getRestrictions, getUserData, hashCode, isAbstract

Method Details

getSuper

AssociationType getSuper()

Override of PropertyType.getSuper() which type narrows to AssociationType.

Specified by:

getSuper in interface PropertyType

Returns:

The parent or super type, or null.

See Also:

• PropertyType.getSuper()

getRelatedType

AttributeType getRelatedType()

The attribute type of the related attribute in the association.

Returns:

The type of the related attribute.

getBinding

Class<?> getBinding()

Override of PropertyType.getBinding() which specifies that this method should return getRelatedType().getBinding(), that is it returns the binding of the related type.

Specified by:

getBinding in interface PropertyType

Returns:

The binding of the property type.