edu.nrao.sss.astronomy
Class SkyBotResolver

java.lang.Object
  edu.nrao.sss.astronomy.SkyBotResolver

All Implemented Interfaces:

SourceLocator

public class SkyBotResolver
extends Object
implements SourceLocator

IMCE's SkyBot Resolver source locator.

This locator sends a CGI query to IMCE (Institut de Mechanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides) and parses the response. The web address for the query is http://www.imcce.fr/webservices/skybot/skybotresolver_query.php.

Version Info:

$Revision: 555 $

$Date: 2007-04-24 09:05:24 -0600 (Tue, 24 Apr 2007) $

$Author: dharland $

Since:

2007-04-18

Author:

David M. Harland

Constructor Summary

SkyBotResolver()

Method Summary

SkyPosition	findPosition(String sourceName) Returns the current position for the given source.
SkyPosition	findPosition(String sourceName, Date time) Returns the position for the given source at the given time.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SkyBotResolver

public SkyBotResolver()

Method Detail

findPosition

public SkyPosition findPosition(String sourceName,
                                Date time)
                         throws SourceNotFoundException

Description copied from interface: SourceLocator

Returns the position for the given source at the given time.

Specified by:

findPosition in interface SourceLocator

Parameters:

sourceName - the name of the source to locate.

time - the time for which the position is desired

Returns:

the position of the source named sourceName at time.

Throws:

SourceNotFoundException - if anything goes wrong during the location of the source and the decoding of its position information. The thrown exception will contain a non-null root cause.

findPosition

public SkyPosition findPosition(String sourceName)
                         throws SourceNotFoundException

Description copied from interface: SourceLocator

Returns the current position for the given source.

Specified by:

findPosition in interface SourceLocator

Parameters:

sourceName - the name of the source to locate.

Returns:

the current position of the source named sourceName.

Throws:

SourceNotFoundException - if anything goes wrong during the location of the source and the decoding of its position information. The thrown exception will contain a non-null root cause.