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/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government
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 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department
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 * of the Valencian Government (CIT)
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 * 
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 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, 
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 * MA  02110-1301, USA.
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 */
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/*
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 * AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):
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 * 2008 {{Company}}   {{Task}}
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 */
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package org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature;
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import java.util.Iterator;
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import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.spi.FeatureSetProvider;
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import org.gvsig.tools.evaluator.Evaluator;
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public interface FeatureIndexes {
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        /**
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         * Returns a FeatureIndex given the name with which it was created.
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         * @param name FeatureIndex name
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         * @return FeatureIndex or null if it is not found.
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        public FeatureIndex getFeatureIndex(String name);
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        /**
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         * Using the given evaluator attributes, choose and use an appropriate index 
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         * to obtain a FeatureSetProvider. If no index can be applied, then this method returns null
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         * @param evaluator
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         * @return FeatureSetProvider or null if could not find any appropriate index.
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        public FeatureSetProvider getFeatureSet(Evaluator evaluator);        
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        /**
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         * Returns an iterator over the indexes. Elements are of type FeatureIndex.
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         * @return Iterator over the FeatureIndex(es).
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        public Iterator iterator();
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}