Package stsci.arci

This package provides the set of interfaces used by the display tool to represent objects.

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Description

Interface Summary

Archive	Generic Archive Interface.
ArchiveObject	This is a base interface for all other archive interfaces inherit.
ArchiveServer	This represents an interface to multiple archives.
CompassObject
Eccentric	For stars which provide ecentritiy information so the Plot routine can determine wheter to use it or not.
ImageArchive	As with Source Archive the notion here is to define the operations applicable to an archive of images so a client can maike use of an aritrary archive.
ImageInfo	This contains the interface for image information regarding thepolynomial transformation of RA dec to the image coordinates.
Plate	This is just to identify Plates from other objects the ra and dec will be the plate center - other archive object info is not meaningfull for this object.
RemoteIter	A remote iterator to alow interaction with a remote collection of objects.
SourceArchive	The archive must be implemented for the particular archive system.

Class Summary

ArchiveDescriptor	This class represents one Archive.
ImageArchiveDescriptor	This just sets dtype to IMAGE in the ArchiveDescriptor.

Package stsci.arci Description

This package provides the set of interfaces used by the display tool to represent objects. The implemtations of the objects may be different but they must implement these interfaces. This allows multiple differnt implementaitons for objects from differnt archives.

Author: William O'Mullane