edu.harvard.cfa.vo.tapclient.vosi
Interface Vosi

All Known Implementing Classes:

TapService

public interface Vosi

An interface for the common, basic functions of a VO service. These functions include service availability, capabilities, and tableset metadata.

Method Summary

Availability	getAvailability()
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns a list of Capability objects that represents the VOSI capabilities of the service.
TableSet	getTableSet() Returns a list of Schema objects that represents the VOSI table set metadata of the service.

Method Detail

getAvailability

Availability getAvailability()
                             throws HttpException,
                                    ResponseFormatException,
                                    java.io.IOException

Throws:

HttpException

ResponseFormatException

java.io.IOException

getCapabilities

Capabilities getCapabilities()
                             throws HttpException,
                                    ResponseFormatException,
                                    java.io.IOException

Returns a list of Capability objects that represents the VOSI capabilities of the service. A new VOSI capabilities request is made to the service every time the getCapabilities method is called.

Returns:

a list of Capabilty objects representing the VOSI capabilities of the service.

Throws:

HttpException - if the service responses to the VOSI Capabilities request with an unexpected HTTP status.

ResponseFormatException - if an error occurs parsing the service response into an VOSI Capabilities document.

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs creating an input stream.

getTableSet

TableSet getTableSet()
                     throws HttpException,
                            ResponseFormatException,
                            java.io.IOException

Returns a list of Schema objects that represents the VOSI table set metadata of the service. A new VOSI tables request is made to the service every time the getTableSet method is called.

Returns:

the VOSI tables from the service.

Throws:

HttpException - if the service responses to the VOSI Tables request with an unexpected HTTP status.

ResponseFormatException - if an error occurs parsing the service response into an VOSI Tables document.

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs creating an input stream.