org.opengis.webservice
Class MetadataType

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Object
  CodeList<MetadataType>
      MetadataType

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<MetadataType>

public final class MetadataType
extends CodeList<MetadataType>

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class CodeList

CodeList.Filter

Field Summary

static MetadataType	DUBLIN_CORE
static MetadataType	FGDC
static MetadataType	NONE
static MetadataType	TC211

Method Summary

MetadataType[]	family() Returns the list of codes of the same kind than this code list element.
static MetadataType	valueOf(String code) Returns the metadata type that matches the given string, or returns a new one if none match it.
static MetadataType[]	values() Returns the list of MetadataTypes.

Methods inherited from class CodeList

compareTo, equals, identifier, name, names, ordinal, readResolve, toString, valueOf, valueOf

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Field Detail

TC211

public static final MetadataType TC211

FGDC

public static final MetadataType FGDC

DUBLIN_CORE

public static final MetadataType DUBLIN_CORE

NONE

public static final MetadataType NONE

Method Detail

values

public static MetadataType[] values()

Returns the list of MetadataTypes.

Returns:

The list of codes declared in the current JVM.

family

public MetadataType[] family()

Returns the list of codes of the same kind than this code list element. Invoking this method is equivalent to invoking values(), except that this method can be invoked on an instance of the parent CodeList class.

Specified by:

family in class CodeList<MetadataType>

Returns:

The codes of the same kind than this code.

valueOf

public static MetadataType valueOf(String code)

Returns the metadata type that matches the given string, or returns a new one if none match it. More specifically, this methods returns the first instance for which name().equals(code) returns true. If no existing instance is found, then a new one is created for the given name.

Parameters:

code - The name of the code to fetch or to create.

Returns:

A code matching the given name.