uk.org.ogsadai.client.toolkit.service
Interface ServiceFetcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

GenericServiceFetcher

public interface ServiceFetcher

Interface used to obtain data service client-side proxies.

Author:

The OGSA-DAI Project Team

Method Summary

DataService

getDataService(java.lang.String url, java.lang.String resourceID) Create a proxy for the data service specified by the given URL and data service resource ID.

Method Detail

getDataService

public DataService getDataService(java.lang.String url,
                                  java.lang.String resourceID)
                           throws java.net.MalformedURLException,
                                  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
                                  ServiceCommsException,
                                  ServiceTypeException

Create a proxy for the data service specified by the given URL and data service resource ID.

Parameters:

url - URL of a data service

resourceID - Data service resource ID. The method does not check whether the service exposes the resource.

Returns:

a proxy for data service

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if either of the arguments are null.

java.net.MalformedURLException - if URL is malformed.

ServiceCommsException - if there is a problem contacting the service.

ServiceTypeException - if the service at url is either not an OGSA-DAI service or is not implemented in a version of OGSA-DAI compatible with this version of the client toolkit.