TapLanguage (Starjava VO API)

```
public interface TapLanguage
```
Describes a query language as declared by a TAP capabilities record.

Since:

29 Nov 2011

Author:

Mark Taylor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`getDescription()`	Returns a textual description of this language.
`java.util.Map<java.lang.String,TapLanguageFeature[]>`	`getFeaturesMap()`	Returns a map of language features for this language.
`java.lang.String`	`getName()`	Returns the language name.
`java.lang.String[]`	`getVersionIds()`	Returns version IVO-IDs.
`java.lang.String[]`	`getVersions()`	Returns version strings.

- Method Detail
  - getName
```
java.lang.String getName()
```
    Returns the language name.
    
    Returns:
    
    name with no version suffix
  - getVersions
```
java.lang.String[] getVersions()
```
    Returns version strings.
    
    Returns:
    
    array of supported version names, same length as getVersionIds array
  - getVersionIds
```
java.lang.String[] getVersionIds()
```
    Returns version IVO-IDs.
    
    Returns:
    
    array of IVO-IDs associated with supported versions, same length as getVersions array
  - getDescription
```
java.lang.String getDescription()
```
    Returns a textual description of this language.
    
    Returns:
    
    description string
  - getFeaturesMap
```
java.util.Map<java.lang.String,TapLanguageFeature[]> getFeaturesMap()
```
    Returns a map of language features for this language. Map keys are the language feature "type" strings, and the values are arrays of features with that type.
    
    Returns:
    
    type->feature list map