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The NetCDF-Java Library is a Java interface to NetCDF files, as well as to many other types of scientific data formats.
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 * Copyright 1998-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
 *
 * Portions of this software were developed by the Unidata Program at the
 * University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
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package thredds.catalog2;

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.List;

import ucar.nc2.units.DateType;

/**
 * Represents a hierarchical collection of datasets.
 *
 * Invariants:
 * 

 *    Must have a non-null name.
 *    Must have a non-null document base URI.
 *    Each Service name must be unique in the catalog.
 *    All Service name references must reference an existing Service.
 *    All Dataset ID must be unique in the catalog.
 *    All Dataset alias must reference an existing Dataset. 
 * 
 *
 * @author edavis
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface Catalog
{
  public String getName();
  public URI getDocBaseUri();
  public String getVersion();
  public DateType getExpires();
  public DateType getLastModified();

  public List getServices();
  public Service getServiceByName( String name );
  public Service findServiceByNameGlobally( String name );

  public List getDatasets();
  public DatasetNode getDatasetById( String id );
  public DatasetNode findDatasetByIdGlobally( String id );

  public List getProperties();
  public Property getPropertyByName( String name );
}