org.geotools.catalog
Class AbstractMetadataEntity

java.lang.Object
  org.geotools.catalog.AbstractMetadataEntity

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

Direct Known Subclasses:

FileMetadataImpl, WMSLayerMetadataEntity

public abstract class AbstractMetadataEntity

extends java.lang.Object

implements org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

MetadataEntity superclass that uses reflection for EntityType information.

AbstractMetadata uses reflection to identify all the getXXX() methods. The getXXX() are used to construct all the Metadata.Entity and Metadata.Element objects The return type of each is used to determine whether the element is a simple element or an entity, if the element is not a simple entity a entity for that class will can be created as well. All Metadata.Entities and Elements are created when requested (Lazily)

We should switch this over to use BeanInfo/Introspector reflection to allow for recognition of boolean isFoo as "foo", getBar as "bar" and getURL as "URL".

Since:

2.1

Author:

jeichar

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.Element, org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.EntityType

Constructor Summary

AbstractMetadataEntity()

Method Summary

java.util.List	elements()
java.lang.Object	getElement(org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.Element element)
java.lang.Object	getElement(java.lang.String xpath)
org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.EntityType	getEntityType() Builds EntityType based on reflection.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractMetadataEntity

public AbstractMetadataEntity()

Method Detail

elements

public final java.util.List elements()

Specified by:

elements in interface org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

See Also:

org.geotools.metadata.Metadata#elements()

getElement

public final java.lang.Object getElement(java.lang.String xpath)

Specified by:

getElement in interface org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

See Also:

org.geotools.metadata.Metadata#getElement(java.lang.String)

getElement

public java.lang.Object getElement(org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.Element element)

Specified by:

getElement in interface org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

See Also:

org.geotools.metadata.Metadata#getElement(org.geotools.metadata.ElementType)

getEntityType

public org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity.EntityType getEntityType()

Builds EntityType based on reflection.

The EntityType will not be built until the first time it is needed.

Specified by:

getEntityType in interface org.opengis.catalog.MetadataEntity

See Also:

org.geotools.metadata.Metadata#getEntity()