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package org.deegree.model.feature.schema;

import java.net.URI;

import org.deegree.datatypes.QualifiedName;

/**
 * The FeatureType interface is intended to provide details of the type of a Feature that are
 * described as Feature Schema in the Abstract Specification's Essential Model, specifically the
 * names and types of the properties associated with each instance of a Feature of the given
 * FeatureType.
 * <p>
 * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2006/08/28 20:15:11 $
 */
public interface FeatureType {

    /**
     * returns the name of the FeatureType
     * 
     * @return name of the FeatureType
     */
    public QualifiedName getName();

    /**
     * Returns whether this feature type is abstract or not.
     * 
     * @return true, if the feature type is abstract, false otherwise
     */
    public boolean isAbstract();

    /**
     * returns the namespace of the feature type (maybe null)
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public URI getNameSpace();

    /**
     * returns the location of the XML schema defintion assigned to a namespace
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public URI getSchemaLocation();

    /**
     * returns the name of the property a the passed index position
     */
    public QualifiedName getPropertyName( int index );

    /**
     * returns the properties of this feature type
     * 
     * @return type properties
     */
    public PropertyType[] getProperties();

    /**
     * returns a property of this feature type identified by its name
     * 
     * @param name
     *            name of the desired property
     * @return one named property
     */
    public PropertyType getProperty( QualifiedName name );

    /**
     * returns the FeatureTypeProperties of type GEOMETRY
     * 
     * @see org.deegree.datatypes.Types
     * @return
     */
    public GeometryPropertyType[] getGeometryProperties();

    /**
     * returns true if the passed FeatureType equals this FeatureType. Two FeatureTypes are equal if
     * they have the same qualified name
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public boolean equals( FeatureType featureType );

}
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 * 2005/12/08 20:40:52 mschneider Added 'isAbstract' field to FeatureType.
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