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package org.geotoolkit.metadata.iso.content;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
import net.jcip.annotations.ThreadSafe;
import org.opengis.metadata.content.ContentInformation;
import org.opengis.metadata.content.CoverageDescription;
import org.opengis.metadata.content.FeatureCatalogueDescription;
import org.geotoolkit.metadata.iso.MetadataEntity;
/**
* Description of the content of a dataset.
*
* @author Martin Desruisseaux (IRD, Geomatys)
* @author Touraïvane (IRD)
* @author Cédric Briançon (Geomatys)
* @version 3.19
*
* @since 2.1
* @module
*/
@ThreadSafe
@XmlType(name = "AbstractMD_ContentInformation_Type")
@XmlRootElement(name = "MD_ContentInformation")
@XmlSeeAlso({
DefaultCoverageDescription.class,
DefaultFeatureCatalogueDescription.class
})
public class AbstractContentInformation extends MetadataEntity implements ContentInformation {
/**
* Serial number for inter-operability with different versions.
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = -1609535650982322560L;
/**
* Constructs an initially empty content information.
*/
public AbstractContentInformation() {
}
/**
* Constructs a metadata entity initialized with the value from the specified metadata.
*
* @param source The metadata to copy, or {@code null} if none.
*
* @since 2.4
*/
public AbstractContentInformation(final ContentInformation source) {
super(source);
}
/**
* Returns a Geotk metadata implementation with the same values than the given arbitrary
* implementation. If the given object is {@code null}, then this method returns {@code null}.
* Otherwise if the given object is already a Geotk implementation, then the given object is
* returned unchanged. Otherwise a new Geotk implementation is created and initialized to the
* attribute values of the given object, using a shallow copy operation
* (i.e. attributes are not cloned).
*
* This method checks for the {@link CoverageDescription} and {@link FeatureCatalogueDescription}
* sub-interfaces. If one of those interfaces is found, then this method delegates to
* the corresponding {@code castOrCopy} static method. If the given object implements more
* than one of the above-cited interfaces, then the {@code castOrCopy} method to be used is
* unspecified.
*
* @param object The object to get as a Geotk implementation, or {@code null} if none.
* @return A Geotk implementation containing the values of the given object (may be the
* given object itself), or {@code null} if the argument was null.
*
* @since 3.18
*/
public static AbstractContentInformation castOrCopy(final ContentInformation object) {
if (object instanceof CoverageDescription) {
return DefaultCoverageDescription.castOrCopy((CoverageDescription) object);
}
if (object instanceof FeatureCatalogueDescription) {
return DefaultFeatureCatalogueDescription.castOrCopy((FeatureCatalogueDescription) object);
}
return (object == null) || (object instanceof AbstractContentInformation)
? (AbstractContentInformation) object : new AbstractContentInformation(object);
}
/**
* @deprecated Renamed {@link #castOrCopy castOrCopy}.
* @param object The object to get as a Geotk implementation, or {@code null} if none.
* @return The given object as a Geotk implementation.
*/
@Deprecated
public static AbstractContentInformation wrap(final ContentInformation object) {
return castOrCopy(object);
}
}