org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.spi
Interface RegistryEntry

All Known Subinterfaces:

StreamRegistryEntry, URLRegistryEntry

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRegistryEntry

public interface RegistryEntry

The base interface for all image tag registry entries. To be useful you probably need to implement on of the flavors of registry entries (such as StreamRegistryEntry or URLRegistryEntry).

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getFormatName() Returns the name of the format.
java.util.List	getMimeTypes() Return a List of mime types for this file format.
float	getPriority() Returns a search priority for this entry.
java.util.List	getStandardExtensions() Return a List of the common extensions for this file format.

Method Detail

getStandardExtensions

public java.util.List getStandardExtensions()

Return a List of the common extensions for this file format. The first entry in the list may be used as the default extension for writing files in this format (when we add support for writing that is). This may also be used to build a selection expression for finding files of this type.

getMimeTypes

public java.util.List getMimeTypes()

Return a List of mime types for this file format. The first entry in the list may be used as the default mime type.

getFormatName

public java.lang.String getFormatName()

Returns the name of the format. For example "JPEG", "PNG", ...

getPriority

public float getPriority()

Returns a search priority for this entry. For most formats this is not important, but in some cases it is important that some entries occure before or after others.