thredds.cataloggen
Interface CatalogBuilder

All Known Implementing Classes:

DatasetScanCatalogBuilder, SimpleCatalogBuilder, StandardCatalogBuilder

public interface CatalogBuilder

An interface for building catalogs where each instance only builds catalogs for the dataset collection root it was setup to handle.

Since:

Dec 6, 2005 12:09:36 PM

Author:

edavis

Method Summary

InvCatalogImpl	generateCatalog(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs) Return an InvCatalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.
org.jdom.Document	generateCatalogAsDocument(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs) Return a JDOM Document representation of the catalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.
String	generateCatalogAsString(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs) Return a String containing the XML representation of the catalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.
InvCatalogImpl	generateProxyDsResolverCatalog(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs, ProxyDatasetHandler pdh) Generate the catalog for a resolver request of the given ProxyDatasetHandler.
CrawlableDataset	requestCrawlableDataset(String path) Return the CrawlableDataset for the given path, null if this CatalogBuilder does not allow the requested CrawlableDataset.

Method Detail

requestCrawlableDataset

CrawlableDataset requestCrawlableDataset(String path)
                                         throws IOException

Return the CrawlableDataset for the given path, null if this CatalogBuilder does not allow the requested CrawlableDataset.

This method can handle requests for regular datasets and proxy datasets.

Parameters:

path - the path of the requested CrawlableDataset

Returns:

the CrawlableDataset for the given path or null if the path is not allowed by this CatalogBuilder either due to filtering or due to the path not being a descendant (or self) of the collection level path.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs while locating the children datasets.

generateCatalog

InvCatalogImpl generateCatalog(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs)
                               throws IOException

Return an InvCatalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.

Parameters:

catalogCrDs - the location in the collection at which to generate a catalog

Returns:

an InvCatalog for the specified location

Throws:

IOException - if problems accessing the dataset collection.

generateProxyDsResolverCatalog

InvCatalogImpl generateProxyDsResolverCatalog(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs,
                                              ProxyDatasetHandler pdh)
                                              throws IOException

Generate the catalog for a resolver request of the given ProxyDatasetHandler. This method is optional, it does not need to be supported by all CatalogBuilder implementations.

Parameters:

catalogCrDs - the location in the collection at which to generate a catalog

pdh - the ProxyDatasetHandler corresponding to the resolver request.

Returns:

the catalog for a resolver request of the given proxy dataset.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the given ProxyDatasetHandler is not known by this CollectionLevelScanner.

IOException

generateCatalogAsDocument

org.jdom.Document generateCatalogAsDocument(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs)
                                            throws IOException

Return a JDOM Document representation of the catalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.

Parameters:

catalogCrDs - the location in the collection at which to generate a catalog

Returns:

an org.jdom.Document representing the catalog for the specified location

Throws:

IOException - if problems accessing the dataset collection.

generateCatalogAsString

String generateCatalogAsString(CrawlableDataset catalogCrDs)
                               throws IOException

Return a String containing the XML representation of the catalog for the level in the collection hierarchy specified by catalogPath.

Parameters:

catalogCrDs - the location in the collection at which to generate a catalog

Returns:

a String containing the XML representation of the catalog for the specified location

Throws:

IOException - if problems accessing the dataset collection.