uk.ac.starlink.gbin

Interface GbinMeta

public interface GbinMeta

Represents metadata easily recovered from a GBIN file. This interface corresponds to (contains some of the same methods as) the gaia.cu1.tools.dal.gbin.GbinMetaData class.

For convenience the methods here throw no exceptions, if something goes wrong they should just return a null value.

Since:

13 Aug 2014

Author:

Mark Taylor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	buildDescription(boolean showChunkBreakdown) Returns a description of the contents of the GBIN file.
Integer	getGbinVersionNumber() Returns the GBIN version number.
long[]	getSolutionIdList() Returns the unique list of solution id's present in this gbin file in ascending order.
Long	getTotalElementCount() Returns the number of objects in the GBIN file.

Method Detail

buildDescription

String buildDescription(boolean showChunkBreakdown)

Returns a description of the contents of the GBIN file.

Parameters:

showChunkBreakdown - if true, gives details of each individual chunk, otherwise just gives a summary of the gbin contents

Returns:

description, typically multi-line

getGbinVersionNumber

Integer getGbinVersionNumber()

Returns the GBIN version number.

Returns:

gbin version number

getSolutionIdList

long[] getSolutionIdList()

Returns the unique list of solution id's present in this gbin file in ascending order. The list can be empty if the objects do not contain a solutionId field, or no objects were written. The list can be null if no solutionId information was found for one or more chunks (e.g. the data was written with an older version of the writer class, or an older format (e.g. GbinV2).

Returns:

array of solution IDs

getTotalElementCount

Long getTotalElementCount()

Returns the number of objects in the GBIN file.

Returns:

element count