Application: gvSIG desktop

/* 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.

 * 

 */

/*

 * AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

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

 */

package org.gvsig.fmap.geom.primitive;

import org.cresques.cts.ICoordTrans;

import org.gvsig.fmap.geom.Geometry;

/**

 * <p>

 * This interface is equivalent to the GM_Envelope specified in 

 * <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26012">ISO 19107</a>.

 * A minimum bounding box or rectangle. Regardless of dimension, an Envelope

 * can be represented without ambiguity as two direct positions (coordinate

 * points). To encode an Envelope, it is sufficient to encode these two

 * points. This is consistent with all of the data types in this

 * specification, their state is represented by their publicly accessible

 * attributes.

 * </p>

 * @see <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26012">ISO 19107</a>

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

 */

public interface Envelope {

    /**

     * Returns the center ordinate along the specified dimension.

     * @param dimension.

     * The dimension

     * @return 

     * The value of the ordinate.

     */

    double getCenter(int dimension);

    /**

     * The length of coordinate sequence (the number of entries) in this

     * envelope.

     * @return 

     * The dimension of the envelope.

     */

    int getDimension();

    /**

     * Returns the envelope length along the specified dimension.

     * @param dimension

     * The dimension.

     * @return

     * The envelope length along a dimension.

     */

    double getLength(int dimension);

    /**

     * A coordinate position consisting of all the minimal ordinates for each

     * dimension for all points within the Envelope.

     * @return

     * The lower corner.

     */

    Point getLowerCorner();

    /**

     * Sets the coordinate position consisting of all the minimal ordinates for each

     * dimension for all points within the Envelope.

     * @param point

     * The lower corner.

     */

    void setLowerCorner(Point point);

    /**

     * Returns the maximal ordinate along the specified dimension.

     * @param dimension

     * The dimension.

     * @return

     * The maximum value

     */

    double getMaximum(int dimension);

    /**

     * Returns the minimal ordinate along the specified dimension.

     * @param dimension     

     * The dimension.

     * @return

     * The minimum value.

     */

    double getMinimum(int dimension);

    /**

     * A coordinate position consisting of all the maximal ordinates for each

     * dimension for all points within the Envelope.

     * @return

     * The upper corner

     */

    Point getUpperCorner();

    /**

     * Sets the coordinate position consisting of all the maximal ordinates for each

     * dimension for all points within the Envelope.

     * @param point

     * The upper corner.

     */

    void setUpperCorner(Point upperCorner);

    /**

     * Adds a envelope to the current envelope.

     * @param envelope

     * The envelope to add.

     */

        void add(Envelope envelope);

        /**

         * This method exists by historical reasons. It return the same

         * instance of the Envelope.

         * @deprecated

         * @return

         * The envelope.

         */

        Geometry getGeometry();

        /**

         * Returns <code>true</code> if the new envelope is contained in the 

         * current envelope.

         * @param envelope

         * The envelope to compare.

         * @return

         * If the current envelope contains the new envelope

         */

        boolean contains(Envelope envelope);

        /**

         * Returns <code>true</code> if the new envelope intersects with the 

         * current envelope.

         * @param envelope

         * The envelope to compare.

         * @return

         * If the current envelope intersects with the new envelope

         */

        boolean intersects(Envelope envelope);

        /**

         * Converts the envelope to other coordinate reference system

         * @param trans

         * The CRS conversor

         * @return

         * A new envelope in other CRS 

         */

        Envelope convert(ICoordTrans trans);

}