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1/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2// Name: wx/mimetype.h
3// Purpose: classes and functions to manage MIME types
4// Author: Vadim Zeitlin
5// Modified by:
6// Created: 23.09.98
7// RCS-ID: $Id$
8// Copyright: (c) 1998 Vadim Zeitlin <zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>
9// Licence: wxWindows license (part of wxExtra library)
10/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11
12#ifndef _MIMETYPE_H
13#define _MIMETYPE_H
14
15// fwd decls
16class wxIcon;
17class wxFileTypeImpl;
18class wxMimeTypesManagerImpl;
19
20// the things we really need
21#include "wx/string.h"
22
23// This class holds information about a given "file type". File type is the
24// same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds more to an
25// extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may correspond to a
26// file type). This object may be created in many different ways and depending
27// on how it was created some fields may be unknown so the return value of all
28// the accessors *must* be checked!
29class wxFileType
30{
31friend wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; // it has access to m_impl
32
33public:
34 // An object of this class must be passed to Get{Open|Print}Command. The
35 // default implementation is trivial and doesn't know anything at all about
36 // parameters, only filename and MIME type are used (so it's probably ok for
37 // Windows where %{param} is not used anyhow)
38 class MessageParameters
39 {
40 public:
41 // ctors
42 MessageParameters() { }
43 MessageParameters(const wxString& filename, const wxString& mimetype)
44 : m_filename(filename), m_mimetype(mimetype) { }
45
46 // accessors (called by GetOpenCommand)
47 // filename
48 const wxString& GetFileName() const { return m_filename; }
49 // mime type
50 const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimetype; }
51
52 // override this function in derived class
c330a2cf 53 virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& WXUNUSED(paramName)) const
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54 { return ""; }
55
56 // virtual dtor as in any base class
57 virtual ~MessageParameters() { }
58
59 protected:
60 wxString m_filename, m_mimetype;
61 };
62
63 // accessors: all of them return true if the corresponding information
64 // could be retrieved/found, false otherwise (and in this case all [out]
65 // parameters are unchanged)
66 // return the MIME type for this file type
67 bool GetMimeType(wxString *mimeType) const;
68 // fill passed in array with all extensions associated with this file
69 // type
70 bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
71 // get the icon corresponding to this file type
72 bool GetIcon(wxIcon *icon) const;
73 // get a brief file type description ("*.txt" => "text document")
74 bool GetDescription(wxString *desc) const;
75
76 // get the command to be used to open/print the given file.
77 // get the command to execute the file of given type
78 bool GetOpenCommand(wxString *openCmd,
79 const MessageParameters& params) const;
80 // get the command to print the file of given type
81 bool GetPrintCommand(wxString *printCmd,
82 const MessageParameters& params) const;
83
84 // operations
85 // expand a string in the format of GetOpenCommand (which may contain
86 // '%s' and '%t' format specificators for the file name and mime type
87 // and %{param} constructions).
88 static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
89 const MessageParameters& params);
90
91 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
92 ~wxFileType();
93
94private:
95 // default ctor is private because the user code never creates us
96 wxFileType();
97
98 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
99 wxFileType(const wxFileType&);
100 wxFileType& operator=(const wxFileType&);
101
102 wxFileTypeImpl *m_impl;
103};
104
105// This class accesses the information about all known MIME types and allows
106// the application to retrieve information (including how to handle data of
107// given type) about them.
108//
109// NB: currently it doesn't support modifying MIME database (read-only access).
110class wxMimeTypesManager
111{
112public:
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113 // static helper functions
114 // -----------------------
115
116 // check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second
117 // argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the
118 // types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function
119 // returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE
120 static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
121
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122 // ctor
123 wxMimeTypesManager();
124
125 // Database lookup: all functions return a pointer to wxFileType object
126 // whose methods may be used to query it for the information you're
127 // interested in. If the return value is !NULL, caller is responsible for
128 // deleting it.
129 // get file type from file extension
130 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
131 // get file type from MIME type (in format <category>/<format>)
132 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
133
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134 // other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there
135 // were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow)
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136 // read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically)
137 // in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description)
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138 //
139 // 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the
140 // settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally,
141 // the files read most recently would override the older files, but with
142 // fallback == TRUE this won't happen
143 bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE);
b13d92d1 144 // read in additional file in mime.types format
cc385968 145 bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
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146
147 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
148 ~wxMimeTypesManager();
149
150private:
151 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
152 wxMimeTypesManager(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
153 wxMimeTypesManager& operator=(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
154
155 wxMimeTypesManagerImpl *m_impl;
156};
157
158#endif //_MIMETYPE_H
159
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