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/*
 * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0, which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 */

package javax.activation;

import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.activation.MimeType;

/**
 * The ActivationDataFlavor class is a special subclass of
 * java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor. It allows the JAF to
 * set all three values stored by the DataFlavor class via a new
 * constructor. It also contains improved MIME parsing in the equals
 *  method. Except for the improved parsing, its semantics are
 * identical to that of the JDK's DataFlavor class.
 */

public class ActivationDataFlavor extends DataFlavor {

    /*
     * Raison d'etre:
     *
     * The DataFlavor class included in JDK 1.1 has several limitations
     * including piss poor MIME type parsing, and the limitation of
     * only supporting serialized objects and InputStreams as
     * representation objects. This class 'fixes' that.
     */

    // I think for now I'll keep copies of all the variables and
    // then later I may choose try to better coexist with the base
    // class *sigh*
    private String mimeType = null;
    private MimeType mimeObject = null;
    private String humanPresentableName = null;
    private Class representationClass = null;

    /**
     * Construct a DataFlavor that represents an arbitrary
     * Java object. This constructor is an extension of the
     * JDK's DataFlavor in that it allows the explicit setting
     * of all three DataFlavor attributes.
     * 

* The returned DataFlavor will have the following characteristics: *

* representationClass = representationClass
* mimeType = mimeType
* humanName = humanName *

* * @param representationClass the class used in this DataFlavor * @param mimeType the MIME type of the data represented by this class * @param humanPresentableName the human presentable name of the flavor */ public ActivationDataFlavor(Class representationClass, String mimeType, String humanPresentableName) { super(mimeType, humanPresentableName); // need to call super // init private variables: this.mimeType = mimeType; this.humanPresentableName = humanPresentableName; this.representationClass = representationClass; } /** * Construct a DataFlavor that represents a MimeType. *

* The returned DataFlavor will have the following characteristics: *

* If the mimeType is "application/x-java-serialized-object; * class=", the result is the same as calling new * DataFlavor(Class.forName()) as above. *

* otherwise: *

* representationClass = InputStream

* mimeType = mimeType

* * @param representationClass the class used in this DataFlavor * @param humanPresentableName the human presentable name of the flavor */ public ActivationDataFlavor(Class representationClass, String humanPresentableName) { super(representationClass, humanPresentableName); this.mimeType = super.getMimeType(); this.representationClass = representationClass; this.humanPresentableName = humanPresentableName; } /** * Construct a DataFlavor that represents a MimeType. *

* The returned DataFlavor will have the following characteristics: *

* If the mimeType is "application/x-java-serialized-object; class=", * the result is the same as calling new DataFlavor(Class.forName()) as * above, otherwise: *

* representationClass = InputStream

* mimeType = mimeType * * @param mimeType the MIME type of the data represented by this class * @param humanPresentableName the human presentable name of the flavor */ public ActivationDataFlavor(String mimeType, String humanPresentableName) { super(mimeType, humanPresentableName); this.mimeType = mimeType; try { this.representationClass = Class.forName("java.io.InputStream"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) { // XXX - should never happen, ignore it } this.humanPresentableName = humanPresentableName; } /** * Return the MIME type for this DataFlavor. * * @return the MIME type */ public String getMimeType() { return mimeType; } /** * Return the representation class. * * @return the representation class */ public Class getRepresentationClass() { return representationClass; } /** * Return the Human Presentable name. * * @return the human presentable name */ public String getHumanPresentableName() { return humanPresentableName; } /** * Set the human presentable name. * * @param humanPresentableName the name to set */ public void setHumanPresentableName(String humanPresentableName) { this.humanPresentableName = humanPresentableName; } /** * Compares the DataFlavor passed in with this DataFlavor; calls * the isMimeTypeEqual method. * * @param dataFlavor the DataFlavor to compare with * @return true if the MIME type and representation class * are the same */ public boolean equals(DataFlavor dataFlavor) { return (isMimeTypeEqual(dataFlavor) && dataFlavor.getRepresentationClass() == representationClass); } /** * Is the string representation of the MIME type passed in equivalent * to the MIME type of this DataFlavor.

* * ActivationDataFlavor delegates the comparison of MIME types to * the MimeType class included as part of the JavaBeans Activation * Framework. This provides a more robust comparison than is normally * available in the DataFlavor class. * * @param mimeType the MIME type * @return true if the same MIME type */ public boolean isMimeTypeEqual(String mimeType) { MimeType mt = null; try { if (mimeObject == null) mimeObject = new MimeType(this.mimeType); mt = new MimeType(mimeType); } catch (MimeTypeParseException e) { // something didn't parse, do a crude comparison return this.mimeType.equalsIgnoreCase(mimeType); } return mimeObject.match(mt); } /** * Called on DataFlavor for every MIME Type parameter to allow DataFlavor * subclasses to handle special parameters like the text/plain charset * parameters, whose values are case insensitive. (MIME type parameter * values are supposed to be case sensitive). *

* This method is called for each parameter name/value pair and should * return the normalized representation of the parameterValue. * This method is never invoked by this implementation. * * @param parameterName the parameter name * @param parameterValue the parameter value * @return the normalized parameter value * @deprecated */ protected String normalizeMimeTypeParameter(String parameterName, String parameterValue) { return parameterValue; } /** * Called for each MIME type string to give DataFlavor subtypes the * opportunity to change how the normalization of MIME types is * accomplished. * One possible use would be to add default parameter/value pairs in cases * where none are present in the MIME type string passed in. * This method is never invoked by this implementation. * * @param mimeType the MIME type * @return the normalized MIME type * @deprecated */ protected String normalizeMimeType(String mimeType) { return mimeType; } }





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