AccessibleStreamable


1   /**
2    * @(#)AccessibleStreamable.java    1.3 03/12/19
3    *
4    * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
5    * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
6    */
7   
8   package javax.accessibility;
9   
10  import java.io.InputStream  ;
11  import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor  ;
12  
13  /*
14   *
15   * The <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> interface should be implemented
16   * by the <code>AccessibleContext</code> of any component that presents the
17   * raw stream behind a component on the display screen.  Examples of such
18   * components are HTML, bitmap images and MathML.  An object that implements
19   * <code>AccessibleStreamable</code> provides two things: a list of MIME
20   * types supported by the object and a streaming interface for each MIME type to
21   * get the data.
22   *
23   * @version 1.3 12/19/03
24   * @author Lynn Monsanto
25   * @author Peter Korn
26   *
27   * @see javax.accessibility.AccessibleContext
28   * @since 1.5
29   */
30  public interface AccessibleStreamable {
31      /**
32        * Returns an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
33        * this object supports.
34        *
35        * @return an array of DataFlavor objects for the MIME types
36        * this object supports.
37        */
38       DataFlavor  [] getMimeTypes();
39   
40      /**
41        * Returns an InputStream for a DataFlavor
42        *
43        * @param flavor the DataFlavor
44        * @return an ImputStream if an ImputStream for this DataFlavor exists.  
45        * Otherwise, null is returned.
46        */
47       InputStream   getStream(DataFlavor   flavor);
48  }
49

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