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package ucar.nc2.ft;

import ucar.nc2.time.CalendarDate;
import ucar.nc2.units.DateUnit;
import ucar.unidata.geoloc.EarthLocation;

import java.util.Date;

/**
 * A collection of observations at one time and location.
 * @author caron
 * @since Feb 29, 2008
 */
public interface PointFeature {

  /**
   * Location of this observation
   * @return the location of this observation
   */
  public EarthLocation getLocation();

 /**
   * Actual time of this observation.
   * Convert to Date with getTimeUnit().makeDate()
   * @return actual time of this observation.
   */
  public double getObservationTime();

  /**
   * Actual time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @return actual time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @deprecated use getObservationTimeAsCalendarDate()
   */
  public Date getObservationTimeAsDate();

  /**
   * Actual time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @return actual time of this observation, as a Date.
   */
  public CalendarDate getObservationTimeAsCalendarDate();

  /**
   * Nominal time of this observation.
   * Convert to Date with getTimeUnit().makeDate().
   * When the nominal time is not given in the data, it is usually set to the observational time.
   * @return Nominal time of this observation.
   */
  public double getNominalTime();

  /**
   * Nominal time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @return Nominal time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @deprecated use getNominalTimeAsCalendarDate()
   */
  public Date getNominalTimeAsDate();

  /**
   * Nominal time of this observation, as a Date.
   * @return Nominal time of this observation, as a Date.
   */
  public CalendarDate getNominalTimeAsCalendarDate();

  /**
   * Get the time unit of the time coordinate.
   * @return time unit of the time coordinate
   */
  public DateUnit getTimeUnit();

  /**
   * The actual data of this observation.
   * @return the actual data of this observation.
   * @throws java.io.IOException on i/o error
   */
  public ucar.ma2.StructureData getData() throws java.io.IOException;

}