GeometryDescriptor (Geotools modules 31-SNAPSHOT API)

All Superinterfaces:

AttributeDescriptor, PropertyDescriptor

All Known Subinterfaces:

ChoiceGeometryType

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChoiceGeometryTypeImpl, GeometryDescriptorImpl
```
public interface GeometryDescriptor
extends AttributeDescriptor
```
Describes an instance of a geometry attribute.
This interface adds no additional methods, the point of it is convenience to type narrow getType() to GeometryType.

Author:

Justin Deoliveira, The Open Planning Project

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`CoordinateReferenceSystem`	`getCoordinateReferenceSystem()`	The coordinate reference system in which these geometries are defined.
`GeometryType`	`getType()`	Override of `AttributeDescriptor.getType()` which type narrows to `GeometryType`.

Methods inherited from interface AttributeDescriptor
getDefaultValue, getLocalName

Methods inherited from interface PropertyDescriptor
getMaxOccurs, getMinOccurs, getName, getUserData, isNillable

- Method Detail
  - getType
```
GeometryType getType()
```
    Override of AttributeDescriptor.getType() which type narrows to GeometryType.
    
    Specified by:
    
    getType in interface AttributeDescriptor
    
    Specified by:
    
    getType in interface PropertyDescriptor
    
    See Also:
    
    PropertyDescriptor.getType()
  - getCoordinateReferenceSystem
```
CoordinateReferenceSystem getCoordinateReferenceSystem()
```
    The coordinate reference system in which these 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.