org.daisy.dotify.api.table

Interface TableCatalogService

All Known Implementing Classes:

TableCatalog

public interface TableCatalogService

Provides an interface for a TableCatalog service. The purpose of this interface is to expose an implementation of a TableCatalog as an OSGi service.

To comply with this interface, an implementation must be thread safe and address both the possibility that only a single instance is created and used throughout and that new instances are created as desired.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<FactoryProperties>	list() Lists the tables
Collection<FactoryProperties>	list(TableFilter filter) Lists the tables that matches the specified filter
Table	newTable(String identifier) Creates a new table with the specified identifier.

Method Detail

newTable

Table newTable(String identifier)

Creates a new table with the specified identifier.

Parameters:

identifier - the identifier

Returns:

returns a new table

list

Collection<FactoryProperties> list()

Lists the tables

Returns:

returns a collection of table properties

list

Collection<FactoryProperties> list(TableFilter filter)

Lists the tables that matches the specified filter

Parameters:

filter - the filter

Returns:

returns a collection fo table properties