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Interface ArchiveFormatProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArFormatProvider, Bzip2FormatProvider, GzipFormatProvider, IsoFormatProvider, LstFormatProvider, RarFormatProvider, TarFormatProvider, ZipFormatProvider

public interface ArchiveFormatProvider

This interface allows FileFactory to instanciate AbstractArchiveFile implementations and associate them with the filenames matched by a FilenameFilter.

For AbstractArchiveFile implementations to be automatically instanciated by FileFactory, this interface needs to be implemented and an instance registered with FileFactory.

Author:

Nicolas Rinaudo, Maxence Bernard

See Also:

AbstractArchiveFile, FileFactory

Method Summary

AbstractArchiveFile	getFile(AbstractFile file) Creates a new instance of AbstractArchiveFile .
FilenameFilter	getFilenameFilter() Returns the FilenameFilter that matches filenames to be associated with this archive format.

Method Detail

getFile

AbstractArchiveFile getFile(AbstractFile file)
                            throws java.io.IOException

Creates a new instance of AbstractArchiveFile .

Parameters:

file - file to map as an AbstractArchiveFile.

Returns:

a new instance of AbstractArchiveFile that matches the specified URL.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs.

getFilenameFilter

FilenameFilter getFilenameFilter()

Returns the FilenameFilter that matches filenames to be associated with this archive format.

Returns:

the FilenameFilter that matches filenames to be associated with this archive format