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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.fmap.dal.coverage.datastruct;

import java.text.ParseException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**

 * Time information

 * @author Nacho Brodin (nachobrodin@gmail.com)

 */

public interface TimeInfo {

        public static final int    NUMERIC                    = 0;

        public static final int    DATE                       = 1;

        public static final int    SINGLE_VALUES              = 0;

        public static final int    RANGES                     = 1;

        /**

         * Gets the serial name

         * @return

         */

        public String getSerialName();

        /**

         * Sets the serial name

         * @param serialName

         */

        public void setSerialName(String serialName);

        /**

         * Gets the list of dates

         * @return

         */

        public ArrayList<?> getTime();

        /**

         * Sets the list of dates

         * @return

         */

        public void setTime(ArrayList<?> time);

        /**

         * Gets the time type

         * @return

         */

        public int getTimeType();

        /**

         * Sets the time type

         * @param timeType

         */

        public void setTimeType(int timeType);

        /**

         * Sets the time type

         * @param timeType

         */

        public void setTimeType(String timeType);

        /**

         * Gets the data type

         * @return

         */

        public int getDataType();

        /**

         * Sets the data type

         * @param timeType

         */

        public void setDataType(int dataType);

        /**

         * Adds a new time value in the array. The parameter should be a date.

         * @param value

         * @throws ParseException

         */

        public void addValue(String value) throws ParseException;

        /**

         * Adds a new time value in the array. The parameter should be a time instant.

         * @param value

         * @throws ParseException

         */

        public void addValue(double value);

        /**

         * Gets a string which represents a time information for that position.

         * Each position is or a single value or a part of a interval.

         * @param pos

         * @return

         */

        public String getTimeInfo(int pos);

        /**

         * Gets the description

         * @param description

         */

        public String getDescription();

        /**

         * Sets the description

         * @return

         */

        public void setDescription(String description);

        /**

         * Returns true if the range selected in the parameters is 

         * inside the current.

         * @param tInfo

         * @return

         */

        public boolean isInRange(TimeInfo tInfo);

}