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/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

 * of the Valencian Government (CIT)

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program 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 General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 *

 */

/*

 * AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

 * 2008 IVER T.I. S.A.   {{Task}}

 */

package org.gvsig.fmap.dal.spi;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.DataManager;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.DataTypes;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.exception.InitializeException;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.exception.ProviderNotRegisteredException;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.FeatureAttributeDescriptor;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.FeatureStore;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.FeatureType;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.spi.index.FeatureIndexProviderServices;

/**

 * Inteface of DataManager of Services for data providers

 *

 * @author jmvivo

 *

 */

public interface DataManagerProviderServices extends DataManager {

        public void registerStoreProvider(String name,

                        Class dataStoreProviderClass,

                        Class parametersClass);

        /**

         * Register a new provider of data server explorer

         *

         * FIXME

         *

         * @param <code>name</code> of de provider

         * @param dataSourceClass

         *            class of provider

         * @param parametersClass

         *            parameters class of provider

         */

        public void registerExplorerProvider(String name,

                        Class dataSourceClass, Class parametersClass);

    /**

     * Registers a new feature index provider.

     *

     * @param name

     *                         provider's name

     *

     * @param description

     *                         provider's description

     *

     * @param clazz

     *                         a custom FeatureIndexProvider implementation

     *

     * @param dataType

     *                         one of the constants in {@link DataTypes}. This means that this provider

     *                         can build indexes based on attributes of this type.

     */

        public void registerFeatureIndexProvider(String name, String description, Class clazz, int dataType);

        /**

         * Returns a DataIndexProvider compatible with the attribute data type.

         *

         * @param store

         *            associated FeatureStore

         * @param type

         *            associated FeatureType

         * @param attr

         *            associated FeatureAttributeDescriptor

         * @param providerNames

         *            array of strings containing one or more preferred providers

         * @return empty DataIndexProvider, initialized and ready to use

         */

        public FeatureIndexProviderServices createFeatureIndexProvider(String name, FeatureStore store, FeatureType type,

                        String indexName,

                        FeatureAttributeDescriptor attr) throws InitializeException,

                        ProviderNotRegisteredException;

}