org.deegree.services.wms.protocol
Interface WMSGetMapResponse

All Superinterfaces:
OGCWebServiceResponse
All Known Implementing Classes:
WMSGetMapResponse_Impl

public interface WMSGetMapResponse
extends OGCWebServiceResponse

This interface describes the access to the response of a GetMap request.

The response to a valid GetMap request shall be a map of the georeferenced information layer requested, in the desired style, and having the specified spatial reference system, bounding box, size, format and transparency.

An invalid GetMap request shall yield an error output in the requested Exceptions format (or a network protocol error response in extreme cases). In an HTTP environment, the MIME type of the returned value's Content-type entity header shall match the format of the return value.

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Version:
2002-03-01
Author:
Andreas Poth

Method Summary
 java.lang.Object getMap()
          returns the map that fullfills the GetMap request.
 
Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.services.OGCWebServiceResponse
getException, getRequest, setException, setRequest
 

Method Detail

getMap

public java.lang.Object getMap()
returns the map that fullfills the GetMap request. If a exception raised generating the map and the exception format doesn't equals application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage or application/vnd.ogc.se_blank null will be returned.