com.luciad.lucy.model

LuciadLightspeedInterface ILcyModelContentTypeProvider

All Superinterfaces:

ILcyModelContentType

All Known Implementing Classes:

TLcyCompositeModelContentTypeProvider

public interface ILcyModelContentTypeProvider
extends ILcyModelContentType

Provider for model content types. A model content type can for instance be used to determine the best order to display a given set of layers.

See Also:

ILcyModelContentType

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.luciad.lucy.model.ILcyModelContentType

AREA, FILLED_AREA, GRID, MIXED, POINT, POLYGON, POLYLINE, RASTER, TEXT, UNKNOWN

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getModelContentType(ILcdModel aModel) Retrieves the model content type of the given model.

Method Detail

getModelContentType

int getModelContentType(ILcdModel aModel)

Retrieves the model content type of the given model. The provider is supposed to return ILcyModelContentType.UNKNOWN if it does not know the content type of the given model. If it does know the given model, it should return one of the other ILcyModelContentTypes.

Parameters:

aModel - The model to retrieve the content type of.

Returns:

the model content type of the given model, or ILcyModelContentType.UNKNOWN

See Also:

ILcyModelContentType