visad.data
Class DefaultFamily

java.lang.Object
  visad.data.FormNode
      visad.data.FormFamily
          visad.data.FunctionFormFamily
              visad.data.DefaultFamily

public class DefaultFamily
extends FunctionFormFamily

A container for all the officially supported VisAD datatypes.

To read a Data object from a file or URL:

    Data data = new DefaultFamily("dflt").open(string);
 

To save a Data object to a file:

    new DefaultFamily("dflt").save("file.nc", data, true);
 

To add a Data object to an existing file:

    new DefaultFamily("dflt").add("file.nc", data, true);
 

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class visad.data.FormFamily

forms

Constructor Summary

DefaultFamily(String name)
Construct a family of the supported VisAD datatype Forms

DefaultFamily(String name, boolean netcdfText)
Construct a family of the supported VisAD datatype Forms, with a netCDF form that converts char to Text if netcdfText flag is set.

Method Summary

static void	addFormToList(FormNode form) Add a Form to the list of supported VisAD datatype Forms.
static void	main(String[] args) Test the DefaultFamily class

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FunctionFormFamily

add, open, open, save

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FormFamily

addFormNode, getForms

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FormNode

getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DefaultFamily

public DefaultFamily(String name)

Construct a family of the supported VisAD datatype Forms

DefaultFamily

public DefaultFamily(String name,
                     boolean netcdfText)

Construct a family of the supported VisAD datatype Forms, with a netCDF form that converts char to Text if netcdfText flag is set.

Method Detail

addFormToList

public static void addFormToList(FormNode form)
                          throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Add a Form to the list of supported VisAD datatype Forms. Forms are added to the front of the list, which means that they will take precedence over existing Forms. If, for example, an added Form claims to open files ending in .gif, it will supersede the standard GIFForm. If the added form discovers that it cannot handle a file, it can simply throw an exception and DefaultFamily will pass the file onto the next Form in the list, so any superseded Form will still be able to open the file.

Throws:

ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - If there is no more room in the list.

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws BadFormException,
                        IOException,
                        RemoteException,
                        VisADException

Test the DefaultFamily class

Throws:

BadFormException

IOException

RemoteException

VisADException