org.deegree.feature
Interface FeatureCollection

All Superinterfaces:

Collection<Feature>, Feature, GMLObject, Iterable<Feature>, Object, TypedObjectNode

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFeatureCollection, GenericFeatureCollection

public interface FeatureCollection
extends Feature, Collection<Feature>

A feature collection is a collection of Feature instances.

Note that a FeatureCollection is a Feature itself, which complies to GML feature collection definitions.

Version:

$Revision: 13814 $, $Date: 2008-09-02 20:28:13 +0200 (Di, 02 Sep 2008) $

Author:

Markus Schneider, last edited by: $Author: mschneider $

See Also:

Feature

Method Summary

FeatureCollection	getMembers(Filter filter, XPathEvaluator<Feature> evaluator) Returns the member features that match the given Filter.
FeatureCollectionType	getType() Returns the type information for this feature collection.

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.feature.Feature

getEnvelope, getExtraProperties, getGeometryProperties, getGMLProperties, getId, getName, getProperties, getProperties, getProperties, getProperties, getProperty, getProperty, setExtraProperties, setId, setProperties, setProperties, setPropertyValue, setPropertyValue

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Collection

add, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, isEmpty, iterator, remove, removeAll, retainAll, size, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

getType

FeatureCollectionType getType()

Returns the type information for this feature collection.

Specified by:

getType in interface Feature

Returns:

the type information, never null

getMembers

FeatureCollection getMembers(Filter filter,
                             XPathEvaluator<Feature> evaluator)
                             throws FilterEvaluationException

Returns the member features that match the given Filter.

Parameters:

filter - Filter to be applied, must not be null

evaluator - evaluator to use for evaluating XPath expressions, must not be null

Returns:

matching feature instances as a new FeatureCollection

Throws:

FilterEvaluationException - if an exception occurs during the evaluation of the Filter