Module org.opengis.geoapi

Package org.opengis.util

Interface MemberName

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<GenericName>, GenericName, LocalName

@UML(identifier="MemberName",
     specification=ISO_19103)
public interface MemberName
extends LocalName

A name that references either an attribute slot in a record, an attribute, operation, or association role in an object instance or a type description in some schema. In a Record containing an arbitrary number of attributes:

• MemberName is the name of an attribute. It is similar the name of a field in a Java class.
• TypeName is the name of the attribute definition. It is similar to the name of a Class.

Since:

2.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
TypeName	getAttributeType()	Returns the type of the data associated with the member or record field.
String	toString()	Returns the name of the member.

Methods inherited from interface org.opengis.util.GenericName

compareTo, push, scope, toFullyQualifiedName, toInternationalString

Methods inherited from interface org.opengis.util.LocalName

depth, getParsedNames, head, tip

Method Details

getAttributeType

@UML(identifier="attributeType",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
TypeName getAttributeType()

Returns the type of the data associated with the member or record field.

Comparison with the Java language

MemberName is similar to the name of a field in a Java class, while the returned TypeName is similar to the name of the Java Class used for representing a value in this field.

Returns:

the type of the data associated with the member.

toString

@UML(identifier="aName",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
String toString()

Returns the name of the member. Member names typically use a '.' navigation separator, so that their fully qualified name is of the form "[schema].[type].[member]".

Specified by:

toString in interface GenericName

Specified by:

toString in interface LocalName

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the local-independent string representation of this name.