Package org.geotools.feature

Class AssociationImpl

Object

PropertyImpl

AssociationImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Association, Property

public class AssociationImpl
extends PropertyImpl
implements Association

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class PropertyImpl

descriptor, value

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	AssociationImpl(Attribute value, AssociationDescriptor descriptor)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AssociationDescriptor	getDescriptor()	The PropertyDscriptor of the property, null if this is a top-level value.
AttributeType	getRelatedType()	Returns the type of the associated attribute.
AssociationType	getType()	The type of the property.
Attribute	getValue()	The value or content of the property.

Methods inherited from class PropertyImpl

equals, getName, getUserData, getUserData, hashCode, isNillable, setValue, toString

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Methods inherited from interface Association

setValue

Methods inherited from interface Property

getName, getUserData, hasUserData, isNillable

Constructor Detail

AssociationImpl

protected AssociationImpl(Attribute value,
                          AssociationDescriptor descriptor)

Method Detail

getRelatedType

public AttributeType getRelatedType()

Description copied from interface: Association

Returns the type of the associated attribute.

This method is a convenience for:

 getType().getRelatedType()
 

Specified by:

getRelatedType in interface Association

Returns:

type of the attribute of the association.

getDescriptor

public AssociationDescriptor getDescriptor()

Description copied from interface: Property

The PropertyDscriptor of the property, null if this is a top-level value.

The descriptor provides information about the property with respect to its containing entity (more often then not a Feature or ComplexAttribute.

Specified by:

getDescriptor in interface Association

Specified by:

getDescriptor in interface Property

Overrides:

getDescriptor in class PropertyImpl

Returns:

The property descriptor, null if this is a top-level value.

See Also:

ComplexAttribute

getType

public AssociationType getType()

Description copied from interface: Property

The type of the property.

The type contains information about the value or content of the property such as its java class.

This value is also available via getDescriptor().getType().

Specified by:

getType in interface Association

Specified by:

getType in interface Property

Overrides:

getType in class PropertyImpl

Returns:

The property type.

See Also:

Property.getType()

getValue

public Attribute getValue()

Description copied from interface: Property

The value or content of the property.

The class of this object is defined by getType().getBinding().

This value may be null. In this case getDescriptor().isNillable() would be true.

Specified by:

getValue in interface Association

Specified by:

getValue in interface Property

Overrides:

getValue in class PropertyImpl

Returns:

The value of the property.

See Also:

Property.getValue()