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/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

*

* Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

* of the Valencian Government (CIT)

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/*

* AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

* 2009 {Iver T.I.}   {Task}

*/

package org.gvsig.catalog;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;

import java.net.URI;

import org.gvsig.catalog.drivers.ICatalogServiceDriver;

import org.gvsig.catalog.loaders.LayerLoader;

import org.gvsig.catalog.metadataxml.XMLNode;

import org.gvsig.catalog.schemas.Record;

import org.gvsig.catalog.schemas.Resource;

/**

 * @author <a href="mailto:jpiera@gvsig.org">Jorge Piera</a>

 */

public interface CatalogManager {

        /**

         * It is used to retrieve a driver that supports a concrete 

         * protocol

         * @param protocol

         * Catalog protocol

         * @return

         * The concrete catalog service driver

         */

        public ICatalogServiceDriver getDriver(String protocol);

        /**

         * @return a list with all the catalog drivers

         */

        public ICatalogServiceDriver[] getDrivers();

        /**

         * This method is used to register a new catalog driver 

         * that manage a concrete protocol

         * @param driver

         * Catalog driver to register

         */

        public void register(String name, Class driver);

        /**

         * Adds a new record

         * @param record

         * New record to add

         */

        public void addRecord(Record record);        

        /**

         * Try to identify the XML format and return a record

         * @param uri

         * Server URI (used to retrieve the images)

         * @param node

         * XML node

         * @return

         */

        public Record createRecord(URI uri, XMLNode node);

        public void addLayerLoader(String key, Class loader);

        public LayerLoader getLayerLoader(Resource resource) throws IllegalArgumentException, SecurityException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException;

}