comparison gnv-artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/gnv/state/OutputMode.java @ 875:5e9efdda6894

merged gnv-artifacts/1.0
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
date Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:13:56 +0200
parents 05bf8534a35a
children f953c9a559d8
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1 package de.intevation.gnv.state;
2
3 import java.io.Serializable;
4
5 import java.util.Collection;
6 import java.util.List;
7
8 /**
9 * This is the interface description of an <code>OutputMode</code>. The
10 * methods defined here retrieve some basic information for an output. An output
11 * can be chart, histogram, statistic, csv, odv and so on.
12 *
13 * @author <a href="mailto:tim.englich@intevation.de">Tim Englich</a>
14 * @author <a href="mailto:ingo.weinzierl@intevation.de">Ingo Weinzierl</a>
15 */
16 public interface OutputMode extends Serializable {
17
18 /**
19 * Retrieve the name of this output mode.
20 *
21 * @return the name of this output mode.
22 */
23 public String getName();
24
25 /**
26 * Retrieve the description of an output.
27 *
28 * @return the description.
29 */
30 public String getDescription();
31
32 /**
33 * Retrieve the mimetype used for the output.
34 *
35 * @return the mimetype.
36 */
37 public String getMimeType();
38
39 /**
40 * Retrieve a list of optional InputValue objects the user is able to
41 * adjust.
42 *
43 * @return optional input parameters.
44 */
45 public Collection<InputValue> getInputParameters();
46
47 /**
48 * Retrieve a list of export modes this output can be exported to.
49 *
50 * @return some export modes.
51 */
52 public List<ExportMode> getExportModes();
53 }
54 // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :

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