AppAssociationReader


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20  
21  package org.jdesktop.jdic.filetypes.internal;
22  
23  
24  import java.net.URL  ;
25  import java.util.List  ;
26  
27  
28  /**
29   * Containing funtions to retrieve association information
30   */
31  public interface AppAssociationReader {
32  
33      /**
34       * Returns the description associated with the given mime type.
35       *
36       * @param mimeType Given mime type
37       * @return String
38       */
39      public abstract String   getDescriptionByMimeType(String   mimeType);
40    
41      /**
42       * Returns the description associated with the given file extension.
43       *
44       * @param fileExt Given file extension
45       * @return String
46      */
47      public abstract String   getDescriptionByFileExt(String   fileExt);
48  
49      /**
50       * Returns the mime type associated with the given URL, by checking the content of 
51       * the URL.
52       * 
53       * @param url The specified URL
54       * @return String
55       */
56      public abstract String   getMimeTypeByURL(URL   url);
57  
58      /**
59       * Returns the file extensione list associated with the given mime type.
60       *
61       * @param mimeType Given mime type
62       * @return String
63       */
64      public abstract List   getFileExtListByMimeType(String   mimeType);
65    
66      /**
67       * Returns the mime type associated with the given file extension.
68       *
69       * @param fileExt Given file extension
70       * @return String
71       */
72      public abstract String   getMimeTypeByFileExt(String   fileExt);
73    
74      /**
75       * Returns the icon file name associated with the given mime type.
76       *
77       * @param mimeType Given mime type.
78       * @return icon file name
79       */
80      public abstract String   getIconFileNameByMimeType(String   mimeType);
81    
82      /**
83       * Returns the icon file name associated with the given file extension.
84       *
85       * @param fileExt Given file extension.
86       * @return icon file name
87       */
88      public abstract String   getIconFileNameByFileExt(String   fileExt);
89   
90      /**
91       * Returns the action list associated with the given file extension.
92       *
93       * @param fileExt Given file extension
94       * @return the action list
95       */
96      public abstract List   getActionListByFileExt(String   fileExt);
97  
98      /**
99       * Returns the action list associated with the given mime type.
100      *
101      * @param mimeType Given mime type
102      * @return the action list
103      */
104     public abstract List   getActionListByMimeType(String   mimeType);
105     
106     /**
107      * Returns true if the mime type exists in the system.
108      *
109      * @param mimeType given mimeType
110      * @return true if the mime type exists in the system
111      */
112     public boolean isMimeTypeExist(String   mimeType);
113 
114     /**
115      * Returns true if the file extension exists in the system.
116      * 
117      * @param fileExt given file extension 
118      * @return true if the file extension exists in the system
119      */
120     public boolean isFileExtExist(String   fileExt);
121 }
122
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