thredds.crawlabledataset
Interface CrawlableDatasetSorter

All Known Implementing Classes:

LexigraphicByNameSorter

public interface CrawlableDatasetSorter

The CrawlableDatasetSorter interface provides for sorting a list of CrawlableDatasets. An instance of the CrawlableDatasetSorter interface defines an ordering for a list of CrawlableDatasets. The CrawlableDatasetSorter interface is used by the CollectionLevelScanner class to sort the datasets it is cataloging.

Since:

Nov 18, 2005 4:12:50 PM

Author:

edavis

Method Summary

Object	getConfigObject() Return the configuration object.
void	sort(List<CrawlableDataset> datasetList) Sort the given CrawlableDataset list into the order defined by this sorter.

Method Detail

sort

void sort(List<CrawlableDataset> datasetList)

Sort the given CrawlableDataset list into the order defined by this sorter.

Parameters:

datasetList - the CrawlableDataset list to be sorted.

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the list contains elements that are not CrawlableDatasets.

UnsupportedOperationException - if the given list does not allow the necessary list manipulation.

getConfigObject

Object getConfigObject()

Return the configuration object.

Returns:

the configuration Object (may be null).