// Copyright 2006 - 2008: Rory Plaire (codekaizen@gmail.com)

//

// This file is part of SharpMap.

// SharpMap is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by

// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

// (at your option) any later version.

//

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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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using GeoAPI.Geometries;

using System.IO;

using SharpMap.Expressions;

namespace SharpMap.Data

{

/// <summary>

/// Defines the interface to a provider of raster data.

/// </summary>

public interface IRasterProvider : IProvider

{

/// <summary>

/// Retrieves a <see cref="Stream"/> for the raster data that

/// are selected by <paramref name="query"/>.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="query">Query select with.</param>

/// <returns>A Stream to access the raster data of the result.</returns>

Stream ExecuteRasterQuery(RasterQueryExpression query);

}

}