org.n52.io.response.extension

Class MetadataExtension<T extends ParameterOutput>

java.lang.Object

org.n52.io.response.extension.MetadataExtension<T>

Direct Known Subclasses:

LicenseExtension

public abstract class MetadataExtension<T extends ParameterOutput>
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MetadataExtension()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract void	addExtraMetadataFieldNames(T output)
abstract String	getExtensionName()
abstract Map<String,Object>	getExtras(T output, IoParameters parameters) Gets the extra metadata as simple key=value mapping.
protected boolean	hasExtrasToReturn(ParameterOutput output, IoParameters parameters)
protected Map<String,Object>	wrapSingleIntoMap(Object metadata)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MetadataExtension

public MetadataExtension()

Method Detail

getExtensionName

public abstract String getExtensionName()

getExtras

public abstract Map<String,Object> getExtras(T output,
                                             IoParameters parameters)

Gets the extra metadata as simple key=value mapping. The value is of kind object, so the implementation is free to put any data structure which might make sense to serialize.

Implementation is responsible to respect selected fields from the query which can be obtained by IoParameters.getFields().

Parameters:

output - the actual parameter output to get extra metadata for.

parameters - I/O parameters to fine grain extra metadata assembly.

Returns:

the extra metadata.

addExtraMetadataFieldNames

public abstract void addExtraMetadataFieldNames(T output)

hasExtrasToReturn

protected boolean hasExtrasToReturn(ParameterOutput output,
                                    IoParameters parameters)

wrapSingleIntoMap

protected Map<String,Object> wrapSingleIntoMap(Object metadata)