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1/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2// Name: mimetype.h
e54c96f1 3// Purpose: interface of wxMimeTypesManager
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4// Author: wxWidgets team
5// RCS-ID: $Id$
526954c5 6// Licence: wxWindows licence
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7/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9/**
10 @class wxMimeTypesManager
7c913512 11
30b10ed1 12 This class allows the application to retrieve informations about all known
23324ae1 13 MIME types from a system-specific location and the filename extensions to the
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14 MIME types and vice versa.
15
16 MIME stands for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions" and was originally
17 used in mail protocols. It's standardized by several RFCs.
18
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19 Under Windows, the MIME type information is queried from registry.
20 Under Linux and Unix, it is queried from the XDG data directories.
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30b10ed1 22 Currently, wxMimeTypesManager is limited to @e reading MIME type information.
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ba1d7a6c 24 The application should not construct its own manager: it should use the
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25 object pointer ::wxTheMimeTypesManager.
26 The functions GetFileTypeFromMimeType() and GetFileTypeFromExtension()
27 return a wxFileType object which may be further queried for file description,
28 icon and other attributes.
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29
30 @section mimetypemanager_helpers Helper functions
31
32 All of these functions are static (i.e. don't need a wxMimeTypesManager object
33 to call them) and provide some useful operations for string representations of
34 MIME types. Their usage is recommended instead of directly working with MIME
35 types using wxString functions.
36
37 - wxMimeTypesManager::IsOfType()
38
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39 @section mimetypemanager_query Query database
40
41 These functions are the heart of this class: they allow to find a file type
42 object from either file extension or MIME type.
43 If the function is successful, it returns a pointer to the wxFileType object
30b10ed1 44 which must be deleted by the caller, otherwise @NULL will be returned.
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45
46 - wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType()
47 - wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension()
48
23324ae1 49 @library{wxbase}
3c99e2fd 50 @category{cfg}
7c913512 51
e54c96f1 52 @see wxFileType
23324ae1 53*/
7c913512 54class wxMimeTypesManager
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55{
56public:
57 /**
f369c7c2 58 Constructor puts the object in the "working" state.
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59 */
60 wxMimeTypesManager();
61
62 /**
63 Destructor is not virtual, so this class should not be derived from.
64 */
65 ~wxMimeTypesManager();
66
67 /**
68 This function may be used to provide hard-wired fallbacks for the MIME types
69 and extensions that might not be present in the system MIME database.
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70 Please see the typetest sample for an example of using it.
71 */
4cc4bfaf 72 void AddFallbacks(const wxFileTypeInfo* fallbacks);
23324ae1 73
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74 /**
75 Gather information about the files with given extension and return the
f369c7c2 76 corresponding wxFileType object or @NULL if the extension is unknown.
ba1d7a6c 77
4cc4bfaf 78 The @a extension parameter may have, or not, the leading dot, if it has it,
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79 it is stripped automatically. It must not however be empty.
80 */
81 wxFileType* GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& extension);
82
83 /**
84 Gather information about the files with given MIME type and return the
f369c7c2 85 corresponding wxFileType object or @NULL if the MIME type is unknown.
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86 */
87 wxFileType* GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
88
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89
90 /**
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91 This function returns @true if either the given @a mimeType is exactly
92 the same as @a wildcard or if it has the same category and the subtype of
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93 @a wildcard is '*'. Note that the '*' wildcard is not allowed in
94 @a mimeType itself.
ba1d7a6c 95
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96 The comparison don by this function is case insensitive so it is not
97 necessary to convert the strings to the same case before calling it.
98 */
f369c7c2 99 static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
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101
102 /**
103 Create a new association using the fields of wxFileTypeInfo (at least
104 the MIME type and the extension should be set).
105 */
106 wxFileType *Associate(const wxFileTypeInfo& ftInfo);
107
108 /**
109 Undo Associate().
110 */
111 bool Unassociate(wxFileType *ft) ;
112
113 /**
114 Enumerate all known file types. Returns the number of retrieved items.
115 */
116 size_t EnumAllFileTypes(wxArrayString& mimetypes);
117
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118};
119
120
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121/**
122 The global wxMimeTypesManager instance.
123*/
124wxMimeTypesManager* wxTheMimeTypesManager;
125
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a45d4eca 127
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128/**
129 @class wxFileType
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131 This class holds information about a given @e file type.
132
133 File type is the same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds
134 more to an extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may
135 correspond to a file type).
136
137 This object may be created in several different ways: the program might know the
138 file extension and wish to find out the corresponding MIME type or, conversely, it
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139 might want to find the right extension for the file to which it writes the
140 contents of given MIME type. Depending on how it was created some fields may be
141 unknown so the return value of all the accessors @b must be checked: @false
142 will be returned if the corresponding information couldn't be found.
7c913512 143
23324ae1 144 The objects of this class are never created by the application code but are
7c913512 145 returned by wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType and
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146 wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension methods.
147 But it is your responsibility to delete the returned pointer when you're done
148 with it!
7c913512 149
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150 A brief reminder about what the MIME types are (see the RFC 1341 for more
151 information): basically, it is just a pair category/type (for example,
152 "text/plain") where the category is a basic indication of what a file is.
153 Examples of categories are "application", "image", "text", "binary", and
154 type is a precise definition of the document format: "plain" in the example
155 above means just ASCII text without any formatting, while "text/html" is the
156 HTML document source.
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158 A MIME type may have one or more associated extensions: "text/plain" will
159 typically correspond to the extension ".txt", but may as well be associated with
160 ".ini" or ".conf".
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162
163 @section filetype_example MessageParameters class
164
165 One of the most common usages of MIME is to encode an e-mail message.
166 The MIME type of the encoded message is an example of a message parameter.
167 These parameters are found in the message headers ("Content-XXX").
168
169 At the very least, they must specify the MIME type and the version of MIME
170 used, but almost always they provide additional information about the message
171 such as the original file name or the charset (for the text documents).
172 These parameters may be useful to the program used to open, edit, view or
173 print the message, so, for example, an e-mail client program will have to
4c51a665 174 pass them to this program. Because wxFileType itself cannot know about
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175 these parameters, it uses MessageParameters class to query them.
176
177 The default implementation only requires the caller to provide the file name
178 (always used by the program to be called - it must know which file to open)
179 and the MIME type and supposes that there are no other parameters.
180
181 If you wish to supply additional parameters, you must derive your own class
182 from MessageParameters and override GetParamValue() function, for example:
183
184 @code
185 // provide the message parameters for the MIME type manager
186 class MailMessageParameters : public wxFileType::MessageParameters
187 {
188 public:
189 MailMessageParameters(const wxString& filename,
190 const wxString& mimetype)
191 : wxFileType::MessageParameters(filename, mimetype)
192 {
193 }
194
195 virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& name) const
196 {
197 // parameter names are not case-sensitive
198 if ( name.CmpNoCase("charset") == 0 )
199 return "US-ASCII";
200 else
201 return wxFileType::MessageParameters::GetParamValue(name);
202 }
203 };
204 @endcode
205
206 Now you only need to create an object of this class and pass it to, for example,
207 GetOpenCommand like this:
208
209 @code
210 wxString command;
211 if ( filetype->GetOpenCommand(&command,
212 MailMessageParameters("foo.txt", "text/plain")) )
213 {
214 // the full command for opening the text documents is in 'command'
215 // (it might be "notepad foo.txt" under Windows or "cat foo.txt" under Unix)
216 }
217 else
218 {
219 // we don't know how to handle such files...
220 }
221 @endcode
222
223 Windows: As only the file name is used by the program associated with the
224 given extension anyhow (but no other message parameters), there is no need
225 to ever derive from MessageParameters class for a Windows-only program.
226
227
23324ae1 228 @library{wxbase}
3c99e2fd 229 @category{data}
7c913512 230
e54c96f1 231 @see wxMimeTypesManager
23324ae1 232*/
7c913512 233class wxFileType
23324ae1 234{
8067ee11 235private:
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236 /**
237 The default constructor is private because you should never create objects of
238 this type: they are only returned by wxMimeTypesManager methods.
239 */
240 wxFileType();
241
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243 /**
244 Class representing message parameters.
245
246 An object of this class may be passed to wxFileType::GetOpenCommand()
247 and GetPrintCommand() if more than the file name needs to be specified.
248 */
249 class MessageParameters
250 {
251 public:
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252 /// Trivial default constructor.
253 MessageParameters();
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254
255 /// Constructor taking a filename and a mime type.
256 MessageParameters(const wxString& filename,
257 const wxString& mimetype = wxEmptyString);
258
259 /// Return the filename.
260 const wxString& GetFileName() const;
261
262 /// Return the MIME type.
263 const wxString& GetMimeType() const;
264
265 /// Overridable method for derived classes. Returns empty string by default.
266 virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& name) const;
267
268 /// Trivial but virtual dtor as this class can be inherited from.
29a3f654 269 virtual ~MessageParameters();
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270 };
271
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272 /**
273 Copy ctor.
274 */
275 wxFileType(const wxFileTypeInfo& ftInfo);
276
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277 /**
278 The destructor of this class is not virtual, so it should not be derived from.
279 */
280 ~wxFileType();
281
282 /**
283 This function is primarily intended for GetOpenCommand and GetPrintCommand
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284 usage but may be also used by the application directly if, for example, you
285 want to use some non-default command to open the file.
3c4f71cc 286
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287 The function replaces all occurrences of:
288 - %s with the full file name
289 - %t with the MIME type
290 - %{param} with the value of the parameter @e param
23324ae1 291 using the MessageParameters object you pass to it.
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293 If there is no '%s' in the command string (and the string is not empty), it is
294 assumed that the command reads the data on stdin and so the effect is the same
295 as " %s" were appended to the string.
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297 Unlike all other functions of this class, there is no error return for this
298 function.
299 */
300 static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
382f12e4 301 const MessageParameters& params);
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302
303 /**
4cc4bfaf 304 If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a desc is filled
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305 with a brief description for this file type: for example, "text document" for
306 the "text/plain" MIME type.
307 */
adaaa686 308 bool GetDescription(wxString* desc) const;
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309
310 /**
4cc4bfaf 311 If the function returns @true, the array @a extensions is filled
23324ae1 312 with all extensions associated with this file type: for example, it may
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313 contain the following two elements for the MIME type "text/html"
314 (notice the absence of the leading dot): "html" and "htm".
315
23324ae1 316 @b Windows: This function is currently not implemented: there is no
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317 (efficient) way to retrieve associated extensions from the given MIME type
318 on this platform, so it will only return @true if the wxFileType object was
319 created by wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension function in the
320 first place.
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321 */
322 bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
323
324 /**
325 If the function returns @true, the @c iconLoc is filled with the
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326 location of the icon for this MIME type.
327 A wxIcon may be created from @a iconLoc later.
328
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329 @b Windows: The function returns the icon shown by Explorer for the files of
330 the specified type.
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23324ae1 332 @b Mac: This function is not implemented and always returns @false.
ba1d7a6c 333
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334 @b Unix: MIME manager gathers information about icons from GNOME
335 and KDE settings and thus GetIcon's success depends on availability
336 of these desktop environments.
337 */
adaaa686 338 bool GetIcon(wxIconLocation* iconLoc) const;
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339
340 /**
4cc4bfaf 341 If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a mimeType is filled
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342 with full MIME type specification for this file type: for example, "text/plain".
343 */
adaaa686 344 bool GetMimeType(wxString* mimeType) const;
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345
346 /**
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347 Same as GetMimeType() but returns array of MIME types.
348
349 This array will contain only one item in most cases but sometimes,
350 notably under Unix with KDE, may contain more MIME types.
351 This happens when one file extension is mapped to different MIME types
352 by KDE, mailcap and mime.types.
23324ae1 353 */
43c48e1e 354 bool GetMimeTypes(wxArrayString& mimeTypes) const;
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355
356 //@{
357 /**
358 With the first version of this method, if the @true is returned, the
4cc4bfaf 359 string pointed to by @a command is filled with the command which must be
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360 executed (see wxExecute()) in order to open the file of the given type.
361
362 In this case, the name of the file as well as any other parameters
363 is retrieved from MessageParameters() class.
364
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365 In the second case, only the filename is specified and the command to be used
366 to open this kind of file is returned directly. An empty string is returned to
367 indicate that an error occurred (typically meaning that there is no standard way
368 to open this kind of files).
369 */
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370 bool GetOpenCommand(wxString* command, const MessageParameters& params);
371 wxString GetOpenCommand(const wxString& filename) const;
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372 //@}
373
374 /**
4cc4bfaf 375 If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a command is filled
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376 with the command which must be executed (see wxExecute()) in order to
377 print the file of the given type.
23324ae1 378
ba1d7a6c 379 The name of the file is retrieved from the MessageParameters class.
23324ae1 380 */
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381 bool GetPrintCommand(wxString* command,
382 const MessageParameters& params) const;
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384 /**
385 Returns the number of commands for this mime type, and fills the verbs
386 and commands arrays with the command information.
387 */
388 size_t GetAllCommands(wxArrayString *verbs, wxArrayString *commands,
389 const wxFileType::MessageParameters& params) const;
23324ae1 390};
e54c96f1 391
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392
393
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394/**
395 Container of information about wxFileType.
396
397 This class simply stores information associated with the file type. It
398 doesn't do anything on its own and is used only to allow constructing
399 wxFileType from it (instead of specifying all the constituent pieces
400 separately) and also with wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks().
401 */
402class wxFileTypeInfo
403{
404public:
405 /**
406 Default constructor creates an invalid file type info object.
407
408 Such invalid/empty object should be used to terminate the list of file
409 types passed to wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks().
410 */
411 wxFileTypeInfo();
412
413 /**
414 Constructor specifying just the MIME type name.
415
416 Use the various setter methods below to fully initialize the object.
417
418 @since 2.9.2
419 */
420 wxFileTypeInfo(const wxString& mimeType);
421
422 /**
423 Constructor allowing to specify all the fields at once.
424
425 This is a vararg constructor taking an arbitrary number of extensions
426 after the first four required parameters. The list must be terminated
427 by @c wxNullPtr, notice that @c NULL can't be used here in portable
428 code (C++0x @c nullptr can be used as well if your compiler supports
429 it).
430 */
431 wxFileTypeInfo(const wxString& mimeType,
432 const wxString& openCmd,
433 const wxString& printCmd,
434 const wxString& description,
435 const wxString& extension,
436 ...);
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438 /**
439 Constuctor using an array of string elements corresponding to the
440 parameters of the ctor above in the same order.
441 */
442 wxFileTypeInfo(const wxArrayString& sArray);
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443
444 /**
445 Add another extension associated with this file type.
446
447 @since 2.9.2
448 */
449 void AddExtension(const wxString& ext);
450
451 /**
452 Set the file type description.
453
454 @since 2.9.2
455 */
456 void SetDescription(const wxString& description);
457
458 /**
459 Set the command to be used for opening files of this type.
460
461 @since 2.9.2
462 */
463 void SetOpenCommand(const wxString& command);
464
465 /**
466 Set the command to be used for printing files of this type.
467
468 @since 2.9.2
469 */
470 void SetPrintCommand(const wxString& command);
471
472 /**
473 Set the short description for the files of this type.
474
475 This is only used under MSW for some of the registry keys used for the
476 file type registration.
477 */
478 void SetShortDesc(const wxString& shortDesc);
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480 /**
481 Set the icon information.
482 */
483 void SetIcon(const wxString& iconFile, int iconIndex = 0);
484
485 /**
486 Get the MIME type
487 */
488 const wxString& GetMimeType() const;
489
490 /**
491 Get the open command
492 */
493 const wxString& GetOpenCommand() const;
494
495 /**
496 Get the print command
497 */
498 const wxString& GetPrintCommand() const;
499
500 /**
501 Get the short description (only used under Win32 so far)
502 */
503 const wxString& GetShortDesc() const;
504
505 /**
506 Get the long, user visible description
507 */
508 const wxString& GetDescription() const;
509
510 /**
511 Get the array of all extensions
512 */
513 const wxArrayString& GetExtensions() const;
514
515 /**
516 Get the number of extensions.
517 */
518 size_t GetExtensionsCount() const;
519
520 /**
521 Get the icon filename
522 */
523 const wxString& GetIconFile() const;
524
525 /**
526 Get the index of the icon within the icon file.
527 */
528 int GetIconIndex() const;
529
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