ucar.visad
Class MapFamily

java.lang.Object
  visad.data.FormNode
      visad.data.FormFamily
          visad.data.FunctionFormFamily
              ucar.visad.MapFamily

public class MapFamily
extends FunctionFormFamily

A container for all the supported Map types. Currently, ESRI shapefiles, McIDAS and Zebra map files are supported. To read a Data object from a file or URL:

    Data data = new MapFamily("maps").open(string);
 

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $

Author:

Don Murray

See Also:

ShapefileForm, ZebraMapForm, MapForm

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class visad.data.FormFamily

forms

Constructor Summary

MapFamily(String name)
Construct a family of the supported map datatype Forms

Method Summary

static void	addFormToList(FormNode form) Add to the family of the supported map datatype Forms
static void	main(String[] args) Test the MapFamily class.
DataImpl	open(String id) Open a local data object using the first appropriate map form.
DataImpl	open(URL url) Open a remote data object using the first appropriate map form.

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FunctionFormFamily

add, save

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FormFamily

addFormNode, getForms

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FormNode

getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MapFamily

public MapFamily(String name)

Construct a family of the supported map datatype Forms

Parameters:

name - name of the family

Method Detail

addFormToList

public static void addFormToList(FormNode form)
                          throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Add to the family of the supported map datatype Forms

Parameters:

form - FormNode to add to the list

Throws:

ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - If there is no more room in the list.

open

public DataImpl open(String id)
              throws BadFormException,
                     VisADException

Open a local data object using the first appropriate map form.

Overrides:

open in class FunctionFormFamily

Parameters:

id - String representing the path of the map file

Returns:

the VisAD Data representation of the map file

Throws:

BadFormException - - no form is appropriate

VisADException - - VisAD error

open

public DataImpl open(URL url)
              throws BadFormException,
                     VisADException,
                     IOException

Open a remote data object using the first appropriate map form.

Overrides:

open in class FunctionFormFamily

Parameters:

url - URL representing the location of the map file

Returns:

the VisAD Data representation of the map file

Throws:

BadFormException - - no form is appropriate

VisADException - - VisAD error

IOException - - file not found

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws BadFormException,
                        IOException,
                        RemoteException,
                        VisADException

Test the MapFamily class. Run java ucar.visad.MapFamily map1 map2 ... mapn

Parameters:

args - map file locations

Throws:

BadFormException

IOException

RemoteException

VisADException