com.uwyn.rife.cmf
Class MimeType

java.lang.Object
  com.uwyn.rife.datastructures.EnumClass<String>
      com.uwyn.rife.cmf.MimeType

public abstract class MimeType
extends EnumClass<String>

This is a typed enumeration of all the mime types that the content management framework specifically knows about.

The types that are defined here can be validated and transformed.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 3634 $

Author:

Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)

Field Summary

static MimeType	APPLICATION_XHTML The application/xhtml+xml mime type.
static MimeType	IMAGE_GIF The image/gif mime type.
static MimeType	IMAGE_JPEG The image/jpeg mime type.
static MimeType	IMAGE_PNG The image/png mime type.
static MimeType	RAW A generic mime type indicating that the content should be stored as raw data without any mime-type related processing.
static MimeType	TEXT_PLAIN The text/plain mime type.
static MimeType	TEXT_XML The text/plain mime type.

Fields inherited from class com.uwyn.rife.datastructures.EnumClass

mIdentifier

Method Summary

abstract Formatter	getFormatter() Returns an instance of the formatter for this mime type.
static MimeType	getMimeType(String identifier) Returns the MimeType instance that corresponds to a given textual identifier.
abstract CmfPropertyValidationRule	getValidationRule(ConstrainedProperty constrainedProperty) Constructs and returns a CMF-specific validation rule that is able to validate data for this mime type.

Methods inherited from class com.uwyn.rife.datastructures.EnumClass

equals, getIdentifiers, getMember, getMembers, hashCode, registerType, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

APPLICATION_XHTML

public static final MimeType APPLICATION_XHTML

The application/xhtml+xml mime type.

IMAGE_GIF

public static final MimeType IMAGE_GIF

The image/gif mime type.

IMAGE_JPEG

public static final MimeType IMAGE_JPEG

The image/jpeg mime type.

IMAGE_PNG

public static final MimeType IMAGE_PNG

The image/png mime type.

TEXT_PLAIN

public static final MimeType TEXT_PLAIN

The text/plain mime type.

TEXT_XML

public static final MimeType TEXT_XML

The text/plain mime type.

RAW

public static final MimeType RAW

A generic mime type indicating that the content should be stored as raw data without any mime-type related processing.

Method Detail

getValidationRule

public abstract CmfPropertyValidationRule getValidationRule(ConstrainedProperty constrainedProperty)

Constructs and returns a CMF-specific validation rule that is able to validate data for this mime type.

Parameters:

constrainedProperty - an instance of the property for which the validation rule has to be built

Returns:

an instance of the validation rule

Since:

1.0

getFormatter

public abstract Formatter getFormatter()

Returns an instance of the formatter for this mime type.

Returns:

an instance of the formatter

Since:

1.0

getMimeType

public static MimeType getMimeType(String identifier)

Returns the MimeType instance that corresponds to a given textual identifier.

Parameters:

identifier - the identifier of the mime type that has to be retrieved

Returns:

the requested MimeType; or

null if the MimeType is not supported

Since:

1.0