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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.raster.cache.tile.provider;

/**

 * This interface have to be implemented by a data provider. This will report

 * the structure of its layers 

 *

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

 */

public interface TileServer {

        /**

         * Gets the cache structure

         * @return

         */

        public CacheStruct getStruct();

        /**

         * Sets the cache structure. It builds the Downloader with the 

         * new structure.

         * @param struct

         */

        public void setStruct(CacheStruct struct);

        /**

         * Gets the tile server

         * @return

         */

        public Downloader getDownloader();

        /**

         * Gets the file extension to save tiles

         * @return

         */

        public String getFileSuffix();

        /**

         * Assigns the extension of the output file

         * @param extension

         */

        public void setFileSuffix(String extension);

}