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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.
 *
 * <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 subclass 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>
 * 
 * <pre><code>
 * 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};
 * }
 * }
 * </code></pre>
 *
 * @see Transfer
 */
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.
 * 
 * @param object a java <code>byte[]</code> containing the data to be converted
 * @param transferData an empty <code>TransferData</code> object that will
 *  	be filled in on return with the platform specific format of the data
 * 
 * @see Transfer#nativeToJava
 */
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>.   
 * 
 * @param transferData the platform specific representation of the data to be converted
 * @return a java <code>byte[]</code> containing the converted data if the conversion was
 * 		successful; otherwise null
 * 
 * @see Transfer#javaToNative
 */
protected Object nativeToJava(TransferData transferData) {
	return null;
}
}