edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove
Class XMPSource

java.lang.Object
  org.xml.sax.InputSource
      edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.XMPSource

Direct Known Subclasses:

ByteArrayXMPSource, PdfXMPSource

public abstract class XMPSource
extends org.xml.sax.InputSource

Class for providing an InputSource to XMPHandler. Only an InputSource based on a Reader is supported. Each module can provide its own subclass of XMPSource. The subclass must provide a way to reset to the beginning and reread the data when makeProperty is called.

Author:

Gary McGath

Field Summary

protected java.io.Reader

_reader The Reader on which the InputSource is based.

Constructor Summary

XMPSource(java.io.Reader rdr)
Constructor with Reader.

Method Summary

Property	makeProperty() Generates a property from the underlying data.
protected abstract void	resetReader() Causes reading to begin from the start again.

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.InputSource

getByteStream, getCharacterStream, getEncoding, getPublicId, getSystemId, setByteStream, setCharacterStream, setEncoding, setPublicId, setSystemId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

_reader

protected java.io.Reader _reader

The Reader on which the InputSource is based.

Constructor Detail

XMPSource

public XMPSource(java.io.Reader rdr)

Constructor with Reader.

Method Detail

makeProperty

public Property makeProperty()
                      throws java.io.IOException

Generates a property from the underlying data. The beginning and ending processing instructions are stripped out.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

resetReader

protected abstract void resetReader()

Causes reading to begin from the start again. Typically this means creating a new value for _reader that will start over.