001/*
002 * $Id: MultiDimensionReader.java,v 1.8 2011/03/24 16:06:33 davep Exp $
003 *
004 * This file is part of McIDAS-V
005 *
006 * Copyright 2007-2011
007 * Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
008 * University of Wisconsin - Madison
009 * 1225 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
010 * https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas
011 * 
012 * All Rights Reserved
013 * 
014 * McIDAS-V is built on Unidata's IDV and SSEC's VisAD libraries, and
015 * some McIDAS-V source code is based on IDV and VisAD source code.  
016 * 
017 * McIDAS-V is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
018 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
019 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
020 * (at your option) any later version.
021 * 
022 * McIDAS-V is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
023 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
024 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
025 * GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
026 * 
027 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
028 * along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
029 */
030
031package edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra;
032
033import java.lang.Class;
034
035public interface MultiDimensionReader {
036
037  public float[] getFloatArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
038  public double[] getDoubleArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
039  public int[] getIntArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
040  public short[] getShortArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
041  public byte[] getByteArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
042
043  public Object getArray(String name, int[] start, int[] count, int[] stride) throws Exception;
044
045  public Class getArrayType(String name);
046
047  public String[] getDimensionNames(String arrayName);
048
049  public int[] getDimensionLengths(String arrayName);
050
051  public HDFArray getGlobalAttribute(String attrName) throws Exception;
052
053  public HDFArray getArrayAttribute(String arrayName, String attrName) throws Exception;
054
055  public void close() throws Exception;
056}