/*
VisAD system for interactive analysis and visualization of numerical
data.  Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 Bill Hibbard, Curtis Rueden, Tom
Rink, Dave Glowacki, Steve Emmerson, Tom Whittaker, Don Murray, and
Tommy Jasmin.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307, USA
*/

package visad.data.dods;

import visad.*;

/**
 * Provides support for adapting a DODS attribute to the VisAD data-import
 * context.
 *
 * 
Instances are immutable.
 *
 * @author Steven R. Emmerson
 */
public abstract class AttributeAdapter
    extends	Adapter
{
    /**
     * Returns the VisAD data object corresponding to this instance.
     *
     * @param copy		If true, then a copy of the data object is
     *				returned.
     * @return			The VisAD data object corresponding to this
     *				instance.
     */
    public abstract DataImpl data(boolean copy);
}