org.opengis.geometry.primitive

Interface Primitive

All Superinterfaces:

Geometry, TransfiniteSet

All Known Subinterfaces:

CompositeCurve, CompositeSolid, CompositeSurface, Curve, OrientableCurve, OrientablePrimitive, OrientableSurface, Point, PolyhedralSurface, Ring, Shell, Solid, Surface, Tin, TriangulatedSurface

@UML(identifier="GM_Primitive",
     specification=ISO_19107)
public interface Primitive
extends Geometry

Abstract root class of the geometric primitives. Its main purpose is to define the basic "boundary" operation that ties the primitives in each dimension together. A geometric primitive is a geometric object that is not decomposed further into other primitives in the system. This includes curves and surfaces, even though they are composed of curve segments and surface patches, respectively. Those curve segments and surface patches cannot exist outside the context of a primitive.

Any geometric object that is used to describe a feature is a collection of geometric primitives. A collection of geometric primitives may or may not be a geometric complex. Geometric complexes have additional properties such as closure by boundary operations and mutually exclusive component parts. Primitive and Complex share most semantics, in the meaning of operations and attributes. There is an exception in that a Primitive shall not contain its boundary (except in the trivial case of point where the boundary is empty), while a complex shall contain its boundary in all cases.

Since:

GeoAPI 1.0

Author:

Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)

See Also:

PrimitiveFactory.createPrimitive(org.opengis.geometry.Envelope)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PrimitiveBoundary	getBoundary() Returns the boundary of a Primitive as a set of Primitives.
Set<Complex>	getComplexes() Returns the set of complexes which contains this primitive.
Composite	getComposite() Returns the owner of this primitive.
Set<Primitive>	getContainedPrimitives() Returns the Primitives which are by definition coincident with this one.
Set<Primitive>	getContainingPrimitives() Returns the Primitives which are by definition coincident with this one.
OrientablePrimitive[]	getProxy() Returns the orientable primitives associated with this primitive.

Methods inherited from interface Geometry

clone, distance, getBuffer, getCentroid, getClosure, getConvexHull, getCoordinateDimension, getCoordinateReferenceSystem, getDimension, getEnvelope, getMaximalComplex, getMbRegion, getPrecision, getRepresentativePoint, isCycle, isMutable, isSimple, toImmutable, transform, transform

Methods inherited from interface TransfiniteSet

contains, contains, difference, equals, intersection, intersects, symmetricDifference, union

Method Detail

getBoundary

@UML(identifier="boundary",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
PrimitiveBoundary getBoundary()

Returns the boundary of a Primitive as a set of Primitives. This is a specialization of the operation at Geometry, which does not restrict the class of the returned collection. The organization of the boundary set of a Primitive depends on the type of the primitive.

Specified by:

getBoundary in interface Geometry

Returns:

The sets of positions on the boundary.

See Also:

Geometry.getMbRegion(), Geometry.getClosure(), Geometry.getBuffer(double), #getDistance

getContainedPrimitives

@UML(identifier="containedPrimitive",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Set<Primitive> getContainedPrimitives()

Returns the Primitives which are by definition coincident with this one. This allows applications to override the TransfiniteSet<DirectPosition> interpretation and its associated computational geometry, and declare one Primitive to be "interior to" another.

This set should normally be empty when the Primitives are within a complex, since in that case the boundary information is sufficient for most cases.

This association should not be used when the two Primitives are not close to one another. The intent is to allow applications to compensate for inherent and unavoidable round off, truncation, and other mathematical problems indigenous to computer calculations.

Returns:

The set of primitives contained into this primitive.

See Also:

getContainingPrimitives()

getContainingPrimitives

@UML(identifier="containingPrimitive",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Set<Primitive> getContainingPrimitives()

Returns the Primitives which are by definition coincident with this one.

Returns:

The set of primitives which contains this primitive.

See Also:

getContainedPrimitives()

getComplexes

@UML(identifier="complex",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Set<Complex> getComplexes()

Returns the set of complexes which contains this primitive. A Primitive may be in several complexes. This association may not be navigable in this direction (from primitive to complex), depending on the implementation.

Returns:

The set of complexes which contains this primitive.

getComposite

@Association(value="Composition")
 @UML(identifier="composite",
     obligation=OPTIONAL,
     specification=ISO_19107)
Composite getComposite()

Returns the owner of this primitive. This method is optional since the association in ISO 19107 is navigable only from Composite to Primitive, not the other way.

Returns:

The owner of this primitive, or null if the association is not available or not implemented that way.

See Also:

Composite.getGenerators()

getProxy

@Association(value="Oriented")
 @UML(identifier="proxy",
     obligation=CONDITIONAL,
     specification=ISO_19107)
OrientablePrimitive[] getProxy()

Returns the orientable primitives associated with this primitive. Each Primitive of dimension 1 or 2 is associated to two orientable primitives, one for each possible orientation. For curves and surfaces, there are exactly two orientable primitives for each geometric object. For the positive orientation, the orientable primitive shall be the corresponding curve or surface.

This method is mandatory for curves and surfaces, and is not allowed for Points and solids. The later should return null.

Returns:

The orientable primitives as an array of length 2, or null if none.

See Also:

OrientablePrimitive.getPrimitive()