//
// MetakitService.java
//

/*
OME Bio-Formats package for reading and converting biological file formats.
Copyright (C) 2005-@year@ UW-Madison LOCI and Glencoe Software, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
*/

package loci.formats.services;

import java.io.IOException;

import loci.common.RandomAccessInputStream;
import loci.common.services.Service;

/**
 * Interface defining methods for interacting with the OME Metakit library.
 *
 * <dl><dt><b>Source code:</b></dt>
 * <dd><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/browser/bioformats.git/components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/services/MetakitService.java">Trac</a>,
 * <a href="http://git.openmicroscopy.org/?p=bioformats.git;a=blob;f=components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/services/MetakitService.java;hb=HEAD">Gitweb</a></dd></dl>
 */
public interface MetakitService extends Service {

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader */
  public void initialize(String file) throws IOException;

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader */
  public void initialize(RandomAccessInputStream file) throws IOException;

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getTableCount() */
  public int getTableCount();

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getTableNames() */
  public String[] getTableNames();

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getColumnNames(String) */
  public String[] getColumnNames(String table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getColumnNames(int) */
  public String[] getColumNames(int table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getTableData(String) */
  public Object[][] getTableData(String table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getTableData(int) */
  public Object[][] getTableData(int table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getRowData(int, String) */
  public Object[] getRowData(int row, String table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getRowData(int, int) */
  public Object[] getRowData(int row, int table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getRowCount(int) */
  public int getRowCount(int table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getRowCount(String) */
  public int getRowCount(String table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getColumnTypes(int) */
  public Class[] getColumnTypes(int table);

  /* @see ome.metakit.MetakitReader#getColumnTypes(String) */
  public Class[] getColumnTypes(String table);

}