ShapefileConstants.java

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Data Harmonisation Panel
 * 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made
 * available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
 * or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this distribution. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     HUMBOLDT EU Integrated Project #030962
 *     Data Harmonisation Panel <http://www.dhpanel.eu>
 */

package eu.esdihumboldt.hale.io.shp;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import eu.esdihumboldt.hale.io.shp.reader.internal.ShapeInstanceReader;

/**
 * Constants for Shapefile I/O
 * 
 * @author Simon Templer
 */
public interface ShapefileConstants {

	/**
	 * The default shapefile namespace
	 */
	public static final String SHAPEFILE_NS = "http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu/hale/shp";

	/**
	 * The shapefile augmentation namespace - types and properties that really
	 * are not part of the data, but are some kind of augmented information or
	 * metadata should use this namespace.
	 */
	public static final String SHAPEFILE_AUGMENT_NS = "http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu/hale/shp/augment";

	/**
	 * The local name of the augmented property specifying the Shapefile file
	 * name an instance originated from.
	 */
	public static final String AUGMENTED_PROPERTY_FILENAME = "filename";

	/**
	 * The default type name
	 */
	public static final String DEFAULT_TYPE_NAME = "Shapefile";

	/**
	 * Name of the parameter for {@link ShapeInstanceReader} to select the type
	 * the instances should be associated to. The value is a {@link QName}
	 * encoded as String.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_TYPENAME = "typename";

}