Application: gvSIG desktop

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;

public interface DataManagerProviderServices extends DataManager {

        public void registerStoreProvider(String name,

                        Class dataStoreProviderClass,

                        Class parametersClass);

        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;

}