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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)

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 *

 */

package org.gvsig.newlayer;

import java.util.List;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.DataServerExplorer;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.EditableFeatureType;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.FeatureSet;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.FeatureStore;

import org.gvsig.fmap.dal.feature.NewFeatureStoreParameters;

import org.gvsig.fmap.mapcontext.MapContext;

import org.gvsig.tools.task.MonitorableTask;

/**

 * <p>

 * This service is used to export a source {@link FeatureStore} to a

 * target {@link FeatureStore}. 

 * </p>

 * <p>

 * It inherits if {@link MonitorableTask}, and it means that the export 

 * process can be monitorized by one or more observers that can listen

 * all the export events.

 * <p>

 * @author gvSIG team

 * @version $Id$

 */

public interface NewLayerService {

    public void setType(String type);

    public String getType();

    public List<String> getTypes();

    /**

     * This method create a {@link FeatureSet} to other {@link FeatureSet}. 

     * The other necessary parameters to make this conversion are specific

     * for every {@link NewLayerService}. e.g: a shape exporter needs a 

     * file and a projection, a database exporter needs a connection parameters...

     * @param featureSet

     *          the set of features hat have to be exported.     

     * @throws NewLayerServiceException

     *          if there is any exception in the exporting process

     */

    public void createLayer() throws NewLayerServiceException;

        public void loadLayer() throws NewLayerServiceException;

    public DataServerExplorer getExplorer();

    public String getStoreName();

    public EditableFeatureType getFeatureType();

    public NewFeatureStoreParameters getNewStoreParameters();

    public NewLayerProvider getProvider();

    public void addLayerToView(boolean b);

    public MapContext getMapContext();

}