visad.data.netcdf.in
Class VirtualText

java.lang.Object
  visad.data.netcdf.in.VirtualData
      visad.data.netcdf.in.VirtualScalar
          visad.data.netcdf.in.VirtualText

public class VirtualText
extends VirtualScalar

Provides support for a virtual VisAD Scalar.

Constructor Summary

VirtualText(ScalarType type, ucar.netcdf.Variable var)
Constructs from a scalar type and a 2-D char netCDF variable

Method Summary

Object	clone() Clones this instance.
protected Scalar	getScalar(Context context) Gets the Scalar object corresponding to this virtual, data object.

Methods inherited from class visad.data.netcdf.in.VirtualScalar

getData, getDataFactory, getDoubles, getRangeSet, getScalarType, getType, getUnit, getVariable, getVetter, isReal, setDataFactory

Methods inherited from class visad.data.netcdf.in.VirtualData

getData, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

VirtualText

public VirtualText(ScalarType type,
                   ucar.netcdf.Variable var)

Constructs from a scalar type and a 2-D char netCDF variable

Parameters:

type - The type of the nested scalar.

var - The 1-D netCDF variable.

Method Detail

getScalar

protected Scalar getScalar(Context context)
                    throws VisADException,
                           InvalidContextException,
                           IOException

Gets the Scalar object corresponding to this virtual, data object.

Specified by:

getScalar in class VirtualScalar

Returns:

The VisAD Scalar corresponding to this virtual, data object.

Throws:

InvalidContextException - if the indicial context is invalid.

VisADException - Couldn't create necessary VisAD object.

RemoteException - if a Java RMI failure occurs.

IOException - I/O failure.

clone

public Object clone()

Clones this instance.

Specified by:

clone in class VirtualData

Returns:

A (deep) clone of this instance.