uk.ac.starlink.topcat

Class TopcatCgiQuery

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.starlink.util.CgiQuery

uk.ac.starlink.topcat.TopcatCgiQuery

public class TopcatCgiQuery
extends uk.ac.starlink.util.CgiQuery

Extends CgiQuery so it can write to a local file.

Since:

1 Oct 2004

Author:

Mark Taylor (Starlink)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.util.CgiQuery

QUERY_CHARS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TopcatCgiQuery(String base) Constructs a CGI query with no arguments.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
File	executeAsLocalFile(String extension) Sends this query and writes the result to a temporary file.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.util.CgiQuery

addArgument, addArgument, addArgument, addArgument, allowUnencodedChars, equals, formatDouble, formatDouble, formatFloat, hashCode, toString, toURL

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TopcatCgiQuery

public TopcatCgiQuery(String base)

Constructs a CGI query with no arguments.

Parameters:

base - base part of the CGI URL (the bit before the '?')

Method Detail

executeAsLocalFile

public File executeAsLocalFile(String extension)
                        throws IOException

Sends this query and writes the result to a temporary file.

Parameters:

extension - file extension of file to write to

Returns:

file to which query result was written

Throws:

IOException