001    /*
002     * This file is part of McIDAS-V
003     *
004     * Copyright 2007-2013
005     * Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
006     * University of Wisconsin - Madison
007     * 1225 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
008     * https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas
009     * 
010     * All Rights Reserved
011     * 
012     * McIDAS-V is built on Unidata's IDV and SSEC's VisAD libraries, and
013     * some McIDAS-V source code is based on IDV and VisAD source code.  
014     * 
015     * McIDAS-V is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
016     * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
017     * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
018     * (at your option) any later version.
019     * 
020     * McIDAS-V is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
021     * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
022     * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
023     * GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
024     * 
025     * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
026     * along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
027     */
028    
029    package edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra;
030    
031    import java.lang.Class;
032    
033    public interface MultiDimensionReader {
034    
035      public float[] getFloatArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
036      public double[] getDoubleArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
037      public int[] getIntArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
038      public short[] getShortArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
039      public byte[] getByteArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
040    
041      public Object getArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
042    
043      public Class getArrayType(String name);
044    
045      public String[] getDimensionNames(String arrayName);
046    
047      public int[] getDimensionLengths(String arrayName);
048    
049      public HDFArray getGlobalAttribute(String attrName) throws Exception;
050    
051      public HDFArray getArrayAttribute(String arrayName, String attrName) throws Exception;
052    
053      public void close() throws Exception;
054    }