| /****************************************************************************** |
| * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| ****************************************************************************/ |
| |
| package org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.factory; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.RenderedImage; |
| import org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.internal.factory.RenderedImageKey; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * This interface allows the RenderedImageFactory to auto-defect an image type through |
| * an extension point. Implementors need to know how to auto-defect the type of image |
| * given a byte buffer representing the contents of the image. |
| * |
| * @author sshaw |
| */ |
| public interface RenderedImageType { |
| |
| /** |
| * @param buffer the <code>byte[]</code> array that is the contents of the image file. |
| * This is used as the input in order to detect the type of file format. |
| * @param key the <code>RenderedImageKey</code> that defines the parameters of how |
| * to render the particular image. |
| * @return a <code>RenderedImage</code> if the <code>buffer</code> was auto-detected as |
| * being this type. <code>null</code> is returned if the buffer stream is not detected |
| * as this type. |
| */ |
| public RenderedImage autoDetect(byte[] buffer, |
| final RenderedImageKey key); |
| } |