Interface Position

All Known Subinterfaces:

Direct­Position

All Known Implementing Classes:

Abstract­Direct­Position, Direct­Position1D, Direct­Position2D, General­Direct­Position, Immutable­Direct­Position

@UML(identifier="GM_Position",
     specification=ISO_19107)
public interface Position

A type consisting of either a direct position or of a point from which a direct position shall be obtained. The use of this data type allows the identification of a position either directly as a coordinate (variant direct) or indirectly as a point (variant indirect).

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Direct­Position	get­Direct­Position()	Returns the direct position.

Method Details

getDirectPosition

@UML(identifier="direct",
     obligation=CONDITIONAL,
     specification=ISO_19107)
DirectPosition getDirectPosition()

Returns the direct position. This method shall never returns null, but may returns this if invoked on an object which is already a Direct­Position instance.

Returns:

The direct position (may be this).

Since:

2.2