Package org.geotools.api.feature.type

Interface GeometryType

All Superinterfaces:

AttributeType, PropertyType

All Known Subinterfaces:

ChoiceGeometryType

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChoiceGeometryTypeImpl, GeometryTypeImpl, GeometryTypeProxy

public interface GeometryType
extends AttributeType

The type of a GeometryAttribute.

Beyond AttributeType, this class stores the coordinate reference system that geometries are defined in, see getCoordinateReferenceSystem().

Author:

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
CoordinateReferenceSystem	getCoordinateReferenceSystem()	The coordinate reference system in which geometries are defined.

Methods inherited from interface AttributeType

getSuper, isIdentified

Methods inherited from interface PropertyType

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

Method Details

getCoordinateReferenceSystem

CoordinateReferenceSystem getCoordinateReferenceSystem()

The coordinate reference system in which geometries are defined.

This method may return null, but this should only occur in cases where the actual crs is not known. A common case is when a shapefile does not have an accompanied .prj file.