Constructor Detail

• VOTableBuilder

  public VOTableBuilder()

  Default constructor. Strictness of VOTable standard enforcement is determined by VOElementFactory.isStrictByDefault().

• VOTableBuilder

  public VOTableBuilder(boolean strict)

  Constructs a builder with explicit setting of whether VOTable standard interpreation is strict or not.

  Parameters:

  strict - true iff you want strict enforcement of VOTable standard

  See Also:

  VOElementFactory.setStrict(boolean)

Method Detail

• getFormatName

  public java.lang.String getFormatName()

  Returns the string "votable".

  Specified by:

  getFormatName in interface uk.ac.starlink.table.TableBuilder

  Returns:

  format name

• makeStarTable

  public uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable makeStarTable(uk.ac.starlink.util.DataSource datsrc,
                                                      boolean wantRandom,
                                                      uk.ac.starlink.table.StoragePolicy storagePolicy)
                                               throws uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException,
                                                      java.io.IOException

  Makes a StarTable out of a DataSource which points to a VOTable. If the source has a position attribute, it is currently interpreted as an index into a breadth-first list of the TABLE elements in the document pointed to by datsrc, thus it must be a non-negative integer less than the number of TABLE elements. If it has no position attribute, the first TABLE element is used. The interpretation of the position should probably change or be extended in the future to allow XPath expressions.

  Specified by:

  makeStarTable in interface uk.ac.starlink.table.TableBuilder

  Parameters:

  datsrc - the location of the VOTable document to use

  wantRandom - whether, preferentially, a random access table should be returned (doesn't guarantee that it will be random)

  storagePolicy - a StoragePolicy object which may be used to supply scratch storage if the builder needs it

  Returns:

  a StarTable made out of datsrc, or null if this handler can't handle it

  Throws:

  uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException

  java.io.IOException

• makeStarTables

  public uk.ac.starlink.table.TableSequence makeStarTables(uk.ac.starlink.util.DataSource datsrc,
                                                           uk.ac.starlink.table.StoragePolicy storagePolicy)
                                                    throws uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException,
                                                           java.io.IOException

  Specified by:

  makeStarTables in interface uk.ac.starlink.table.MultiTableBuilder

  Throws:

  uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException

  java.io.IOException

• canImport

  public boolean canImport(java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor flavor)

  Returns true for flavors which have MIME types starting

  • text/xml
  • application/xml
  • application/x-votable+xml

  Specified by:

  canImport in interface uk.ac.starlink.table.TableBuilder

• streamStarTable

  public void streamStarTable(java.io.InputStream istrm,
                              uk.ac.starlink.table.TableSink sink,
                              java.lang.String index)
                       throws java.io.IOException

  Acquires the data from a single TABLE element in a VOTable document, writing the result to a sink. This can be used if only one-shot access to the data is required. Invocation of this method should be cheap on memory even for large XML documents and/or tables. Invocation is synchronous, so the method only returns when the streaming has been done (successfully or otherwise).

  For more flexible streamed access to VOTable data, use a TableContentHandler.

  Specified by:

  streamStarTable in interface uk.ac.starlink.table.TableBuilder

  Parameters:

  istrm - stream from which the VOTable document will be supplied

  sink - callback interface into which the table metadata and data will be dumped

  index - if present, a string representation of the index of the table in the document to be read - "0" means the first one encountered, "1" means the second, etc. If it's null or not of numeric form the first table will be used

  Throws:

  java.io.IOException