/* VisAD system for interactive analysis and visualization of numerical data. Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 Bill Hibbard, Curtis Rueden, Tom Rink, Dave Glowacki, Steve Emmerson, Tom Whittaker, Don Murray, and Tommy Jasmin. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA $Id: DataInputSource.java,v 1.7 2009-03-02 23:35:48 curtis Exp $ */ package visad.data.in; import java.rmi.RemoteException; import visad.data.BadFormException; import visad.VisADException; /** * Interface for sources of VisAD data objects. * * @author Steven R. Emmerson */ public interface DataInputSource extends DataInputStream { /** * Opens an existing dataset. * * @param spec The specification of the existing dataset. * @throws BadFormException The DODS dataset is corrupt. * @throws VisADException VisAD failure. * @throws RemoteException Java RMI failure. */ void open(String spec) throws BadFormException, RemoteException, VisADException; }