ucar.multiarray
Interface MultiArrayInfo

All Known Subinterfaces:

MultiArray

All Known Implementing Classes:

ProtoVariable

public interface MultiArrayInfo

Inquiry or introspection interface for abstract multidimensional arrays. The MultiArray interface extends this by adding data access operations.

See Also:

MultiArray, ProtoVariable

Method Summary

java.lang.Class	getComponentType() Returns the Class object representing the component type of the array.
int[]	getLengths() Discover the dimensions of this MultiArray.
int	getRank() Returns the number of dimensions of the array.
boolean	isScalar() Convenience interface; return true if and only if the rank is zero.
boolean	isUnlimited() Returns true if and only if the effective dimension lengths can change.

Method Detail

getComponentType

public java.lang.Class getComponentType()

Returns the Class object representing the component type of the array.

Returns:

Class the component type

See Also:

Class.getComponentType()

getRank

public int getRank()

Returns the number of dimensions of the array.

Returns:

int number of dimensions of the array

getLengths

public int[] getLengths()

Discover the dimensions of this MultiArray.

Returns:

int array whose length is the rank of this MultiArray and whose elements represent the length of each of it's dimensions

isUnlimited

public boolean isUnlimited()

Returns true if and only if the effective dimension lengths can change. For example, if this were implemented by a java.util.Vector.

Returns:

boolean true iff this can grow

isScalar

public boolean isScalar()

Convenience interface; return true if and only if the rank is zero.

Returns:

boolean true iff rank == 0