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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.swt.dnd;
/**
* The class <code>ByteArrayTransfer</code> provides a platform specific
* mechanism for converting a java <code>byte[]</code> to a platform
* specific representation of the byte array and vice versa. See
* <code>Transfer</code> for additional information.
*
* <p><code>ByteArrayTransfer</code> is never used directly but is sub-classed
* by transfer agents that convert between data in a java format such as a
* <code>String</code> and a platform specific byte array.
*
* <p>If the data you are converting <b>does not</b> map to a
* <code>byte[]</code>, you should sub-class <code>Transfer</code> directly
* and do your own mapping to a platform data type.</p>
*
* <p>The following snippet shows a sublcass of ByteArrayTransfer that transfers
* data defined by the class <code>MyType</code>.</p>
*
* <pre><code>
* public class MyType {
* public String fileName;
* public long fileLength;
* public long lastModified;
* }
* </code></pre>
*
* <code><pre>
* public class MyTypeTransfer extends ByteArrayTransfer {
*
* private static final String MYTYPENAME = "my_type_name";
* private static final int MYTYPEID = registerType(MYTYPENAME);
* private static MyTypeTransfer _instance = new MyTypeTransfer();
*
* private MyTypeTransfer() {}
*
* public static MyTypeTransfer getInstance () {
* return _instance;
* }
* public void javaToNative (Object object, TransferData transferData) {
* if (object == null || !(object instanceof MyType[])) return;
*
* if (isSupportedType(transferData)) {
* MyType[] myTypes = (MyType[]) object;
* try {
* // write data to a byte array and then ask super to convert to pMedium
* ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
* DataOutputStream writeOut = new DataOutputStream(out);
* for (int i = 0, length = myTypes.length; i &lt length; i++){
* byte[] buffer = myTypes[i].fileName.getBytes();
* writeOut.writeInt(buffer.length);
* writeOut.write(buffer);
* writeOut.writeLong(myTypes[i].fileLength);
* writeOut.writeLong(myTypes[i].lastModified);
* }
* byte[] buffer = out.toByteArray();
* writeOut.close();
*
* super.javaToNative(buffer, transferData);
*
* } catch (IOException e) {
* }
* }
* }
* public Object nativeToJava(TransferData transferData){
*
* if (isSupportedType(transferData)) {
*
* byte[] buffer = (byte[])super.nativeToJava(transferData);
* if (buffer == null) return null;
*
* MyType[] myData = new MyType[0];
* try {
* ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer);
* DataInputStream readIn = new DataInputStream(in);
* while(readIn.available() > 20) {
* MyType datum = new MyType();
* int size = readIn.readInt();
* byte[] name = new byte[size];
* readIn.read(name);
* datum.fileName = new String(name);
* datum.fileLength = readIn.readLong();
* datum.lastModified = readIn.readLong();
* MyType[] newMyData = new MyType[myData.length + 1];
* System.arraycopy(myData, 0, newMyData, 0, myData.length);
* newMyData[myData.length] = datum;
* myData = newMyData;
* }
* readIn.close();
* } catch (IOException ex) {
* return null;
* }
* return myData;
* }
*
* return null;
* }
* protected String[] getTypeNames(){
* return new String[]{MYTYPENAME};
* }
* protected int[] getTypeIds(){
* return new int[] {MYTYPEID};
* }
* }
*/
public abstract class ByteArrayTransfer extends Transfer {
public TransferData[] getSupportedTypes(){
return null;
}
public boolean isSupportedType(TransferData transferData){
return false;
}
/**
* This implementation of <code>javaToNative</code> converts a java
* <code>byte[]</code> to a platform specific representation. For additional
* information see <code>Transfer#javaToNative</code>.
*
* @see Transfer#javaToNative
*
* @param object a java <code>byte[]</code> containing the data to be converted
* @param transferData an empty <code>TransferData</code> object; this
* object will be filled in on return with the platform specific format of the data
*/
protected void javaToNative (Object object, TransferData transferData) {
}
/**
* This implementation of <code>nativeToJava</code> converts a platform specific
* representation of a byte array to a java <code>byte[]</code>.
* For additional information see <code>Transfer#nativeToJava</code>.
*
* @see Transfer#nativeToJava
*
* @param transferData the platform specific representation of the data to be
* been converted
* @return a java <code>byte[]</code> containing the converted data if the
* conversion was successful; otherwise null
*/
protected Object nativeToJava(TransferData transferData) {
return null;
}
}