catalogservice.java

由国外的一个著名的geonetwork修改而来

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package org.fao.geonet.kernel.csw;

import java.util.Map;
import jeeves.server.context.ServiceContext;
import org.fao.geonet.csw.common.exceptions.CatalogException;
import org.jdom.Element;

//=============================================================================

public interface CatalogService
{
	/** Returns the name of the service for dispatching purposes */
	public String  getName();

	/** Executes the service on given input request */
	public Element execute(Element request, ServiceContext context) throws CatalogException;

	/** Convert params in a GET request to a POST request */
	public Element adaptGetRequest(Map<String, String> params) throws CatalogException;
}

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