thredds.cataloggen.config
Class CatGenConfigMetadataFactory

java.lang.Object
  thredds.cataloggen.config.CatGenConfigMetadataFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

MetadataConverterIF

public class CatGenConfigMetadataFactory
extends Object
implements MetadataConverterIF

Title: Catalog Generator

Description: Tool for generating THREDDS catalogs.

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2001

Company: UCAR/Unidata

Version:

1.0

Author:

Ethan Davis

Constructor Summary

CatGenConfigMetadataFactory()

Method Summary

void	addMetadataContent(org.jdom.Element mdataJdomElement, Object contentObject) Serialize the InvMetadata content object to a org.w3c.dom.Element
Object	readMetadataContent(InvDataset dataset, org.jdom.Element mdataElement) Create an InvMetadata content object from an org.w3c.dom.Element.
Object	readMetadataContentFromURL(InvDataset dataset, URI uri) Create an InvMetadata content object from an XML document at a named URL.
boolean	validateMetadataContent(Object contentObject, StringBuilder out) Validate the content object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CatGenConfigMetadataFactory

public CatGenConfigMetadataFactory()

Method Detail

readMetadataContent

public Object readMetadataContent(InvDataset dataset,
                                  org.jdom.Element mdataElement)

Create an InvMetadata content object from an org.w3c.dom.Element. The content object is an ArrayList of CatalogGenConfig instances.

Specified by:

readMetadataContent in interface MetadataConverterIF

Parameters:

dataset - - the containing dataset

mdataElement - - the metadata element as an org.w3c.dom.Element

Returns:

an object representing the metadata which is an ArrayList of CatalogGenConfig instances.

readMetadataContentFromURL

public Object readMetadataContentFromURL(InvDataset dataset,
                                         URI uri)
                                  throws IOException

Description copied from interface: MetadataConverterIF

Create an InvMetadata content object from an XML document at a named URL.

Specified by:

readMetadataContentFromURL in interface MetadataConverterIF

Parameters:

dataset - : the containing dataset

uri - : the URI that the XML doc is at.

Returns:

an object representing the metadata content. The type depends on the metadata handler.

Throws:

IOException - on read error

addMetadataContent

public void addMetadataContent(org.jdom.Element mdataJdomElement,
                               Object contentObject)

Serialize the InvMetadata content object to a org.w3c.dom.Element

Specified by:

addMetadataContent in interface MetadataConverterIF

Parameters:

mdataJdomElement - - add content to this org.w3c.dom.Element

contentObject - - the content model

validateMetadataContent

public boolean validateMetadataContent(Object contentObject,
                                       StringBuilder out)

Validate the content object.

Specified by:

validateMetadataContent in interface MetadataConverterIF

Parameters:

contentObject - : the content object

out - : print errors here

Returns:

true if no fatal validation errors.