Package ome.xml.meta

Interface BaseMetadata

All Known Subinterfaces:

IMetadata, MetadataRetrieve, MetadataStore, OMEXMLMetadata

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractOMEXMLMetadata, AggregateMetadata, DummyMetadata, FilterMetadata, OMEXMLMetadataImpl

public interface BaseMetadata

A proxy capable of bidirectional communication of biological image data to and from a particular storage medium.

The BaseMetadata interface is implemented by metadata storage implementations that handles both storage (see MetadataStore) and retrieval (see MetadataRetrieve) of metadata fields. It exists mainly to store MetadataStore and MetadataRetrieve object types within the same container.

Author:

Roger Leigh r.leigh at dundee.ac.uk