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| package org.apache.sis.metadata; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * The kind of values in the {@link MetadataStandard#asTypeMap MetadataStandard.asTypeMap(…)}. |
| * This enumeration specifies whether the values shall be property types, element types (same |
| * as property types except for collections) or the declaring classes. |
| * |
| * @author Martin Desruisseaux (Geomatys) |
| * @version 0.3 |
| * |
| * @see MetadataStandard#asTypeMap(Class, KeyNamePolicy, TypeValuePolicy) |
| * |
| * @since 0.3 |
| */ |
| public enum TypeValuePolicy { |
| /** |
| * The type of a property, as inferred from the |
| * {@linkplain java.lang.reflect.Method#getReturnType() return type} of the property method |
| * defined in the interface. |
| * |
| * <h4>Notes</h4> |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>Collections are not handled in any special way: if the return type is a collection, |
| * then the property type is {@code Collection.class} or any other declared return type.</li> |
| * <li>As a special case, values of type {@code double} (the primitive type) in |
| * {@link org.opengis.metadata.extent.GeographicBoundingBox} are wrapped in |
| * {@link org.apache.sis.measure.Longitude} and {@link org.apache.sis.measure.Latitude} |
| * objects instead of {@link Double}.</li> |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| PROPERTY_TYPE, |
| |
| /** |
| * The specialized type of a property, or type of elements if the property is a collection. |
| * This is the same type as {@link #PROPERTY_TYPE} except for the following: |
| * |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>If the property is a collection, then the element type is the type of <em>elements</em> in that |
| * collection. For example if the property type is {@code Collection<String>}, then the element type |
| * is {@code String}.</li> |
| * <li>If the implementation declares a more specific property type than the interface (as allowed by |
| * <i>covariant return type</i>), then the element type will be that specialized type.</li> |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| ELEMENT_TYPE, |
| |
| /** |
| * The type of the interface that declares the method. For any metadata object, different |
| * properties may have different declaring interfaces if some properties were inherited |
| * from parent interfaces. |
| */ |
| DECLARING_INTERFACE, |
| |
| /** |
| * The type of the class that declares the method. This is similar to |
| * {@link #DECLARING_INTERFACE}, except that the implementation class |
| * from the metadata standard is returned instead of the interface. |
| */ |
| DECLARING_CLASS |
| } |