/* (c) 2014 Open Source Geospatial Foundation - all rights reserved
* (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans
* This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
* application directory.
*/
package org.geoserver.catalog;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.geotools.data.DataAccess;
import org.opengis.feature.Feature;
import org.opengis.feature.type.FeatureType;
import org.opengis.util.ProgressListener;
/**
* A vector or feature based store.
*
* @author Justin Deoliveira, The Open Planning project
*/
public interface DataStoreInfo extends StoreInfo {
/**
* Returns the underlying datastore instance.
* <p>
* This method does I/O and is potentially blocking. The <tt>listener</tt>
* may be used to report the progress of loading the datastore and also to
* report any errors or warnings that occur.
* </p>
*
* @param listener
* A progress listener, may be <code>null</code>.
*
* @return The datastore.
*
* @throws IOException
* Any I/O problems.
*/
DataAccess<? extends FeatureType, ? extends Feature> getDataStore(ProgressListener listener) throws IOException;
/**
* DataStoreInfo equality is based on the following properties:
* <ul>
* <li>{@link StoreInfo#getId()}
* <li>{@link StoreInfo#getName()}
* <li>{@link StoreInfo#getDescription()}
* <li>{@link StoreInfo#getNamespace()}
* <li>{@link StoreInfo#isEnabled()}
* <li>{@link DataStoreInfo#getConnectionParameters()}
* </ul>
*
*/
boolean equals(Object obj);
/**
* Returns the feature resource from the store with the given name.
* <p>
* <tt>listener</tt> is used to report the progress of finding the
* resource.
* </p>
*
* @throws IOException
* Any I/O problems.
*/
//FeatureResource getResource(String name, ProgressListener listener)
// throws IOException;
/**
* Returns the feature resources provided by the store.
*/
//Iterator<FeatureResource> getResources(ProgressListener monitor)
// throws IOException;
}