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package org.geotools.styling;



/**
 * The ChannelSelection element specifies the false-color channel selection for
 * a multi-spectral raster source  (such as a multi-band satellite-imagery
 * source).  It is defined as:
 * <PRE>
 * &lt;xs:element name="ChannelSelection"&gt;
 * &lt;xs:complexType&gt;
 *     &lt;xs:choice&gt;
 *       &lt;xs:sequence&gt;
 *         &lt;xs:element ref="sld:RedChannel"/&gt;
 *         &lt;xs:element ref="sld:GreenChannel"/&gt;
 *         &lt;xs:element ref="sld:BlueChannel"/&gt;
 *       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
 *       &lt;xs:element ref="sld:GrayChannel"/&gt;
 *     &lt;/xs:choice&gt;
 *   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
 * &lt;/xs:element&gt;
 * &lt;xs:element name="RedChannel" type="sld:SelectedChannelType"/&gt;
 * &lt;xs:element name="GreenChannel" type="sld:SelectedChannelType"/&gt;
 * &lt;xs:element name="BlueChannel" type="sld:SelectedChannelType"/&gt;
 * &lt;xs:element name="GrayChannel" type="sld:SelectedChannelType"/&gt;
 * </PRE>
 * Either a channel may be selected to display in each of red, green, and blue,
 * or a single channel may be selected to display in grayscale.  (The spelling
 * ?gray? is used since it seems to be more common on the Web than ?grey? by a
 * ratio of about 3:1.) Contrast enhancement may be applied to each channel in
 * isolation.  Channels are identified by a system and data-dependent
 * character identifier.  Commonly, channels will be labelled as ?1?, ?2?,
 * etc.
 *
 * @author iant
 * @source $URL$
 */
public interface ChannelSelection {
    /**
     * set the RGB channels to be used
     *
     * @param red the red channel
     * @param green the green channel
     * @param blue the blue channel
     * 
     * @deprecated symbolizers and underneath classes will be immutable in 2.6.x
     */
    @Deprecated
    void setRGBChannels(SelectedChannelType red, SelectedChannelType green, SelectedChannelType blue);

    /**
     * set the RGB channels to be used
     *
     * @param channels array of channels in RGB order
     * 
     * @deprecated symbolizers and underneath classes will be immutable in 2.6.x
     */
    @Deprecated
    void setRGBChannels(SelectedChannelType[] channels);

    /**
     * get the RGB channels to be used
     *
     * @return array of channels in RGB order
     */
    SelectedChannelType[] getRGBChannels();

    /**
     * Set the gray channel to be used
     *
     * @param gray the gray channel
     * 
     * @deprecated symbolizers and underneath classes will be immutable in 2.6.x
     */
    @Deprecated
    void setGrayChannel(SelectedChannelType gray);

    /**
     * Get the gray channel to be used
     *
     * @return the gray channel
     */
    SelectedChannelType getGrayChannel();

    /**
     * set the channels to be used
     *
     * @param channels array of channels
     * 
     * @deprecated symbolizers and underneath classes will be immutable in 2.6.x
     */
    @Deprecated
    void setSelectedChannels(SelectedChannelType[] channels);

    /**
     * get the channels to be used
     *
     * @return array of channels
     * 
     */
    @Deprecated
    SelectedChannelType[] getSelectedChannels();

    public void accept(StyleVisitor visitor);
}