org.jasig.portlet.weather.dao

Interface IWeatherDao

All Known Implementing Classes:

WorldWeatherOnlineDaoImpl, YahooWeatherDaoImpl

public interface IWeatherDao

Weather data access interface. Implement this interface to retrieve weather information from source.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Dustin Schultz

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<Location>	find(String location)
Weather	getWeather(String locationCode, TemperatureUnit unit) Gets the weather from an implemented source.
String	getWeatherProviderLink()
String	getWeatherProviderName()

Method Detail

getWeather

Weather getWeather(String locationCode,
                 TemperatureUnit unit)

Gets the weather from an implemented source.

Parameters:

locationCode - A string value representing the location to retrieve weather from.

metric - A boolean value representing metric or not.

Returns:

A Weather object representing the current weather and an optional forecast.

find

Collection<Location> find(String location)

Parameters:

location - A String representing a location to find

Returns:

A collection of locations representing the possible location or an empty or null collection representing location not found.

getWeatherProviderName

String getWeatherProviderName()

getWeatherProviderLink

String getWeatherProviderLink()