edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl.repository.factory
Interface RepositoryFactoryPlugin

All Known Implementing Classes:

DublinCoreDLVersionRedirectRepositoryFactoryPlugin, FTPRepositoryFactoryPlugin, HTTPRepositoryFactoryPlugin, LocalFileRepositoryFactoryPlugin, LocalFolderRepositoryFactoryPlugin, RelativeFolderRepositoryFactoryPlugin

public interface RepositoryFactoryPlugin

User: matthewhorridge
The University Of Manchester
Medical Informatics Group
Date: Sep 19, 2005

matthew.horridge@cs.man.ac.uk
www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horridgm

Field Summary

static String

PLUGIN_TYPE

Method Summary

Repository	createRepository(OWLModel model, String repositoryDescriptor) Creates a repository from the specified repository descriptor.
boolean	isSuitable(OWLModel model, String repositoryDescriptor) Determines if this plugin can create the appropriate repository from the specified String.

Field Detail

PLUGIN_TYPE

public static final String PLUGIN_TYPE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

isSuitable

public boolean isSuitable(OWLModel model,
                          String repositoryDescriptor)

Determines if this plugin can create the appropriate repository from the specified String.

Parameters:

repositoryDescriptor - The repository descriptor (This is typically a URI)

Returns:

true if the plugin can create an appropriate repository given the specified repository descriptor, or false if the plugin cannot create the appropriate repository.

createRepository

public Repository createRepository(OWLModel model,
                                   String repositoryDescriptor)

Creates a repository from the specified repository descriptor.

Parameters:

model -

repositoryDescriptor - The repository descriptor.

Returns:

A Repository that is based on the specified repository descriptor.