org.geotools.feature.type
Class NestedAttributeType

java.lang.Object
  org.geotools.feature.type.ListAttributeType
      org.geotools.feature.type.NestedAttributeType

All Implemented Interfaces:

AttributeType

public class NestedAttributeType

extends ListAttributeType

This level of inheritance is intended for documentation purposes ... so read carefully :). A nested Attribute is equivalent to a weak feature, or a feature without a Fid. This distinction is important because there is very little difference between a Java Bean and a nested Attribute, except the existance of this class. This class is a simplified version of the XML schema which would be used to represent this object as XML. The other subtle divergence between a Nested Attribute, and a Feature is the idea that a Feature can be translated into and out of GML, while a Nested Attribute is really just a typed Object. Much of what is represented within the Nested Attribute and NestedAttributeType can, and is duplicated in many bean2xml and xml2bean libraries (they use introspection ... we declare it in a human readable form).

Author:

dzwiers

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.geotools.feature.AttributeType

UNBOUNDED

Constructor Summary

NestedAttributeType(NestedAttributeType copy)
super(copy)

NestedAttributeType(java.lang.String name, boolean nillable, AttributeType[] children)

NestedAttributeType(java.lang.String name, boolean nillable, int min, int max, AttributeType[] children, Filter restriction)

Methods inherited from class org.geotools.feature.type.ListAttributeType

createDefaultValue, duplicate, find, find, getAttributeCount, getAttributeType, getAttributeType, getAttributeTypes, getMaxOccurs, getMinOccurs, getName, getRestriction, getType, hasAttributeType, isGeometry, isNillable, parse, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NestedAttributeType

public NestedAttributeType(NestedAttributeType copy)

super(copy)

Parameters:

copy -

NestedAttributeType

public NestedAttributeType(java.lang.String name,
                           boolean nillable,
                           int min,
                           int max,
                           AttributeType[] children,
                           Filter restriction)

Parameters:

name -

nillable -

min -

max -

children -

NestedAttributeType

public NestedAttributeType(java.lang.String name,
                           boolean nillable,
                           AttributeType[] children)

Parameters:

name -

nillable -

children -