Package de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support

Class ExtensionBasedFileFormat

java.lang.Object

de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.FileFormat

de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.ExtensionBasedFileFormat

public class ExtensionBasedFileFormat
extends FileFormat

A file format just based on extensions. Although not nice, still many file formats are just identified by extensions, also as this rather easy to check.

Author:

Holger Eichelberger, SSE

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private String	extension

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ExtensionBasedFileFormat(String extension, String name, String description)	Creates an instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getExtension()	Returns the extension.
boolean	matches(File file)	Returns whether the given file matches the file format.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.FileFormat

getDescription, getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

extension

private String extension

Constructor Details

ExtensionBasedFileFormat

public ExtensionBasedFileFormat(String extension,
 String name,
 String description)

Creates an instance.

Parameters:

extension - the file name extension to check for, without the "." (normalized out)

name - the name of the file format

description - a free-text description of the file format

Method Details

getExtension

public String getExtension()

Returns the extension.

Returns:

the extension (without leading ".")

matches

public boolean matches(File file)

Description copied from class: FileFormat

Returns whether the given file matches the file format. This may be based on an anlysis of magic numbers, the file extension, etc.

Specified by:

matches in class FileFormat

Parameters:

file - the file to check

Returns:

true if the given file matches this file format, false else

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class FileFormat