Application: gvSIG desktop

/* 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.

 * 

 */

package org.gvsig.exportto.swing.spi;

import java.util.List;

import javax.print.attribute.standard.OutputDeviceAssigned;

import org.cresques.cts.IProjection;

import org.gvsig.exportto.swing.ExporttoSwingManager;

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

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

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

import org.gvsig.tools.service.ServiceException;

import org.gvsig.tools.service.spi.ProviderManager;

/**

 * Responsible of the management of the providers business logic.

 * 

 * @see ExporttoSwingProvider

 * @author gvSIG Team

 * @version $Id$

 */

public interface ExporttoSwingProviderManager extends ProviderManager {

    /**

     * @return

     *          the list of providers that has been registered.

     */

    public List<String> getProviderNames();

    /**

     * Returns a list of providers that support all the 

     * provider types.

     * @param

     *           a list of provider types, that are constants 

     *           defined in the {@link ExporttoSwingManager}.

     * @return

     *          the list of providers that has been registered.

     */

    public List<String> getProviderNames(int[] providerTypes);

    /**

     * Returns the description for a concrete provider

     * @param providerName

     *      the exportto provider.

     * @return

     *      the description of the provider.

     */

    public String getDescription(String providerName);

    /**

     * Return if a provider supports a data type.

     * @param providerName

     *      the provider name.

     * @param providerType

     *      the provider type. One of the constants defined in the

     *      {@link ExporttoSwingManager}.

     * @return

     *      if the provider supports a dataType.

     * @throws ServiceException 

     */

    public boolean support(String providerName, int providerType) throws ServiceException;

    /**

     * Creates a {@link ExporttoSwingProvider} that is used to export a {@link FeatureSet}.

     * @param providerName

     *          the name of the provider that has to be created.

     * @param featureStore

     *          the source feature store. It can be used to fix some parameters like the

     *          {@link FeatureType} of the destination {@link FeatureStore}.

     * @param projection

     *          the projection of the {@link OutputDeviceAssigned} store.

     * @return

     *          a provider that has to be used to export a {@link FeatureSet}.     

     */

    public ExporttoSwingProvider createExporttoSwingProvider(String providerName, FeatureStore featureStore, IProjection projection) throws ServiceException;

}