thredds.server.viewer

Interface Viewer

All Known Subinterfaces:

ViewerLinkProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

Godiva3Viewer

public interface Viewer

Interface for plugging in Viewers. Generally, these are implemented with jnlp files in /content/thredds/view/views/*.jnlp You can customize by adding parameters to the jnlp file, eg parm=subst&name=value. Then all instances of "{param}" will be replaced by subst, and all instances of "{name}" will be replaced by value, etc.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getViewerLinkHtml(thredds.client.catalog.Dataset ds, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req) Get an HTML fragment link to the viewer JNLP file, for this dataset.
boolean	isViewable(thredds.client.catalog.Dataset ds) Is this dataset vieweable by me?

Method Detail

isViewable

boolean isViewable(thredds.client.catalog.Dataset ds)

Is this dataset vieweable by me?

Parameters:

ds - the dataset

Returns:

true if viewable

getViewerLinkHtml

java.lang.String getViewerLinkHtml(thredds.client.catalog.Dataset ds,
                                   javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)

Get an HTML fragment link to the viewer JNLP file, for this dataset. Example: return "Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) (webstart)";

Parameters:

ds - the dataset to view

req - the request

Returns:

HTML fragment string