org.opengis.webservice.feature
Interface WebFeatureService

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All Superinterfaces:

WebService

public interface WebFeatureService
extends WebService

Web feature service. A WFS is callable through the doService method inherited from WebService. The specification states that only one object of this class is implemented in each server instance, and this object always exists while server is available. (OGC document 03-098, p. 98).

Method Summary

WebServiceCapabilities	getCapabilities() Returns the capabilities of a web service
String	getVersion()
void	handleRequest(WebServiceRequest request) Handles a request against an OGC web service.
void	handleResponse(WebServiceResponse response) Receives the response from the WFSDispatcher.

Methods inherited from interface WebService

doService, doService

Method Detail

getCapabilities

@UML(identifier="capabilities",
     specification=UNSPECIFIED)
WebServiceCapabilities getCapabilities()

Description copied from interface: WebService

Returns the capabilities of a web service

Specified by:

getCapabilities in interface WebService

getVersion

String getVersion()

handleRequest

void handleRequest(WebServiceRequest request)

Handles a request against an OGC web service.

handleResponse

void handleResponse(WebServiceResponse response)

Receives the response from the WFSDispatcher. Calling this method an internal flag is set that indicates that the waiting loop can be aborted without an exception.