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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
16 class wxIcon;
17 class wxFileTypeImpl;
18 class wxMimeTypesManagerImpl;
19
20 #include "wx/defs.h"
21
22 #if wxUSE_FILE
23
24 // the things we really need
25 #include "wx/string.h"
26
27 // This class holds information about a given "file type". File type is the
28 // same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds more to an
29 // extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may correspond to a
30 // file type). This object may be created in many different ways and depending
31 // on how it was created some fields may be unknown so the return value of all
32 // the accessors *must* be checked!
33 class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileType
34 {
35 friend wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; // it has access to m_impl
36
37 public:
38 // An object of this class must be passed to Get{Open|Print}Command. The
39 // default implementation is trivial and doesn't know anything at all about
40 // parameters, only filename and MIME type are used (so it's probably ok for
41 // Windows where %{param} is not used anyhow)
42 class MessageParameters
43 {
44 public:
45 // ctors
46 MessageParameters() { }
47 MessageParameters(const wxString& filename, const wxString& mimetype)
48 : m_filename(filename), m_mimetype(mimetype) { }
49
50 // accessors (called by GetOpenCommand)
51 // filename
52 const wxString& GetFileName() const { return m_filename; }
53 // mime type
54 const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimetype; }
55
56 // override this function in derived class
57 virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& WXUNUSED(paramName)) const
58 { return ""; }
59
60 // virtual dtor as in any base class
61 virtual ~MessageParameters() { }
62
63 protected:
64 wxString m_filename, m_mimetype;
65 };
66
67 // accessors: all of them return true if the corresponding information
68 // could be retrieved/found, false otherwise (and in this case all [out]
69 // parameters are unchanged)
70 // return the MIME type for this file type
71 bool GetMimeType(wxString *mimeType) const;
72 // fill passed in array with all extensions associated with this file
73 // type
74 bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
75 // get the icon corresponding to this file type
76 bool GetIcon(wxIcon *icon) const;
77 // get a brief file type description ("*.txt" => "text document")
78 bool GetDescription(wxString *desc) const;
79
80 // get the command to be used to open/print the given file.
81 // get the command to execute the file of given type
82 bool GetOpenCommand(wxString *openCmd,
83 const MessageParameters& params) const;
84 // get the command to print the file of given type
85 bool GetPrintCommand(wxString *printCmd,
86 const MessageParameters& params) const;
87
88 // operations
89 // expand a string in the format of GetOpenCommand (which may contain
90 // '%s' and '%t' format specificators for the file name and mime type
91 // and %{param} constructions).
92 static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
93 const MessageParameters& params);
94
95 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
96 ~wxFileType();
97
98 private:
99 // default ctor is private because the user code never creates us
100 wxFileType();
101
102 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
103 wxFileType(const wxFileType&);
104 wxFileType& operator=(const wxFileType&);
105
106 wxFileTypeImpl *m_impl;
107 };
108
109 // This class accesses the information about all known MIME types and allows
110 // the application to retrieve information (including how to handle data of
111 // given type) about them.
112 //
113 // NB: currently it doesn't support modifying MIME database (read-only access).
114 class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManager
115 {
116 public:
117 // static helper functions
118 // -----------------------
119
120 // check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second
121 // argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the
122 // types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function
123 // returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE
124 static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
125
126 // ctor
127 wxMimeTypesManager();
128
129 // Database lookup: all functions return a pointer to wxFileType object
130 // whose methods may be used to query it for the information you're
131 // interested in. If the return value is !NULL, caller is responsible for
132 // deleting it.
133 // get file type from file extension
134 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
135 // get file type from MIME type (in format <category>/<format>)
136 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
137
138 // other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there
139 // were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow)
140 // read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically)
141 // in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description)
142 //
143 // 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the
144 // settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally,
145 // the files read most recently would override the older files, but with
146 // fallback == TRUE this won't happen
147 bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE);
148 // read in additional file in mime.types format
149 bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
150
151 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
152 ~wxMimeTypesManager();
153
154 private:
155 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
156 wxMimeTypesManager(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
157 wxMimeTypesManager& operator=(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
158
159 wxMimeTypesManagerImpl *m_impl;
160 };
161
162 #endif
163 // wxUSE_FILE
164
165 #endif
166 //_MIMETYPE_H
167
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