/*  Copyright (C) 2001-2009 National Institute For Space Research (INPE) - Brazil.

    This file is part of the TerraLib - a Framework for building GIS enabled applications.

    TerraLib 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 3 of the License,
    or (at your option) any later version.

    TerraLib 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
    along with TerraLib. See COPYING. If not, write to
    TerraLib Team at <terralib-team@terralib.org>.
 */

/*! 
  \file WKTReader.h

  \brief A class that deserializes a SRS from a valid WKT.
*/

#ifndef __TERRALIB_SRS_INTERNAL_WKTREADER_H
#define __TERRALIB_SRS_INTERNAL_WKTREADER_H

// TerraLib
#include "../common/Static.h"
#include "Config.h"
#include "WKTParser.h"

// STL
#include <string>

namespace te
{
  namespace srs
  {
// Forward declarations
    class SpatialReferenceSystem;

    /*!
      \class WKTReader
      
      \brief A class that deserializes a SRS from a valid WKT.

      \ingroup srs
    */
    class TESRSEXPORT WKTReader : public te::common::Static
    {
      public:

        /*!
          \brief It returns a valid SRS from a given WKT.
 
          \param wkt A valid WKT SRS.

          \return A SRS created from reading the WKT.

          \exception Exception It will throw an exception if the given WKT is invvalid.

          \note The caller of this method will take the ownership of the returned SRS.
        */
        static SpatialReferenceSystem* read(const char* wkt);
    };

  } // namespace srs
}   // namespace te

#endif  // __TERRALIB_SRS_INTERNAL_WKTREADER_H
