wxMimeTypesManager now supports creating associations as well as querying
[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / mimetype.h
1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/mimetype.h
3 // Purpose: classes and functions to manage MIME types
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
5 // Modified by:
6 // Chris Elliott (biol75@york.ac.uk) 5 Dec 00: write support for Win32
7 // Created: 23.09.98
8 // RCS-ID: $Id$
9 // Copyright: (c) 1998 Vadim Zeitlin <zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>
10 // Licence: wxWindows license (part of wxExtra library)
11 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12
13 #ifndef _MIMETYPE_H
14 #define _MIMETYPE_H
15
16 #ifdef __GNUG__
17 #pragma interface "mimetypebase.h"
18 #endif
19
20
21 // fwd decls
22 class wxIcon;
23 class wxFileTypeImpl;
24 class wxMimeTypesManagerImpl;
25
26 #include "wx/defs.h"
27
28 #if wxUSE_FILE
29
30 // the things we really need
31 #include "wx/string.h"
32 #include "wx/dynarray.h"
33
34 class wxMimeTypeCmnModule;
35
36 // This class holds information about a given "file type". File type is the
37 // same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds more to an
38 // extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may correspond to a
39 // file type). This object may be created in many different ways and depending
40 // on how it was created some fields may be unknown so the return value of all
41 // the accessors *must* be checked!
42 class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileType
43 {
44 friend class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; // it has access to m_impl
45
46 public:
47 // An object of this class must be passed to Get{Open|Print}Command. The
48 // default implementation is trivial and doesn't know anything at all about
49 // parameters, only filename and MIME type are used (so it's probably ok for
50 // Windows where %{param} is not used anyhow)
51 class MessageParameters
52 {
53 public:
54 // ctors
55 MessageParameters() { }
56 MessageParameters(const wxString& filename, const wxString& mimetype)
57 : m_filename(filename), m_mimetype(mimetype) { }
58
59 // accessors (called by GetOpenCommand)
60 // filename
61 const wxString& GetFileName() const { return m_filename; }
62 // mime type
63 const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimetype; }
64
65 // override this function in derived class
66 virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& WXUNUSED(paramName)) const
67 { return ""; }
68
69 // virtual dtor as in any base class
70 virtual ~MessageParameters() { }
71
72 protected:
73 wxString m_filename, m_mimetype;
74 };
75
76 // accessors: all of them return true if the corresponding information
77 // could be retrieved/found, false otherwise (and in this case all [out]
78 // parameters are unchanged)
79 // return the MIME type for this file type
80 bool GetMimeType(wxString *mimeType) const;
81 bool GetMimeTypes(wxArrayString& mimeTypes) const;
82 // fill passed in array with all extensions associated with this file
83 // type
84 bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
85 // get the icon corresponding to this file type, the name of the file
86 // where the icon resides is return in iconfile if !NULL and its index
87 // in this file (Win-only) is in iconIndex
88 bool GetIcon(wxIcon *icon,
89 wxString *iconFile = NULL,
90 int *iconIndex = NULL) const;
91 // get a brief file type description ("*.txt" => "text document")
92 bool GetDescription(wxString *desc) const;
93
94 // get the command to be used to open/print the given file.
95 // get the command to execute the file of given type
96 bool GetOpenCommand(wxString *openCmd,
97 const MessageParameters& params) const;
98 // get the command to print the file of given type
99 bool GetPrintCommand(wxString *printCmd,
100 const MessageParameters& params) const;
101
102
103 // return the number of commands defined for this file type, 0 if none
104 size_t GetAllCommands(wxArrayString *verbs, wxArrayString *commands,
105 const wxFileType::MessageParameters& params) const;
106
107 // the methods which modify the system database are only implemented under
108 // Win32 so far (on other platforms they will just return FALSE)
109 //
110 // also, they should only be used with the objects created using
111 // wxMimeTypesManager::Associate()
112
113 // set the command to be used for opening the file
114 bool SetOpenCommand(const wxString& cmd, bool overwriteprompt = TRUE);
115
116 // set an arbitrary command, ask confirmation if it already exists and
117 // overwriteprompt is TRUE
118 bool SetCommand(const wxString& cmd, const wxString& verb,
119 bool overwriteprompt = TRUE);
120
121 // set the MIME type for this filetype
122 bool SetMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
123 // set the default icon for this filetype
124 bool SetDefaultIcon(const wxString& cmd = wxEmptyString, int index = 0);
125
126 // remove the association from the system database
127 bool Unassociate();
128
129 // delete registration info
130 bool RemoveOpenCommand();
131 bool RemoveCommand(const wxString& verb);
132 bool RemoveMimeType();
133 bool RemoveDefaultIcon();
134
135 // operations
136 // expand a string in the format of GetOpenCommand (which may contain
137 // '%s' and '%t' format specificators for the file name and mime type
138 // and %{param} constructions).
139 static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
140 const MessageParameters& params);
141
142 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
143 ~wxFileType();
144
145 private:
146 // default ctor is private because the user code never creates us
147 wxFileType();
148
149 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
150 wxFileType(const wxFileType&);
151 wxFileType& operator=(const wxFileType&);
152
153 wxFileTypeImpl *m_impl;
154 };
155
156 // This class is only used wuth wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks() and is meant
157 // just as the container for the wxFileType data.
158 class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileTypeInfo
159 {
160 public:
161 // ctors
162 // a normal item
163 wxFileTypeInfo(const char *mimeType,
164 const char *openCmd,
165 const char *printCmd,
166 const char *desc,
167 // the other parameters form a NULL terminated list of
168 // extensions
169 ...);
170
171 // invalid item - use this to terminate the array passed to
172 // wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks
173 wxFileTypeInfo() { }
174
175 bool IsValid() const { return !m_mimeType.IsEmpty(); }
176
177 // accessors
178 // get the MIME type
179 const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimeType; }
180 // get the open command
181 const wxString& GetOpenCommand() const { return m_openCmd; }
182 // get the print command
183 const wxString& GetPrintCommand() const { return m_printCmd; }
184 // get the description
185 const wxString& GetDescription() const { return m_desc; }
186 // get the array of all extensions
187 const wxArrayString& GetExtensions() const { return m_exts; }
188
189 private:
190 wxString m_mimeType, // the MIME type in "type/subtype" form
191 m_openCmd, // command to use for opening the file (%s allowed)
192 m_printCmd, // command to use for printing the file (%s allowed)
193 m_desc; // a free form description of this file type
194
195 wxArrayString m_exts; // the extensions which are mapped on this filetype
196 };
197
198 WX_DECLARE_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxFileTypeInfo, wxArrayFileTypeInfo);
199
200
201 // This class accesses the information about all known MIME types and allows
202 // the application to retrieve information (including how to handle data of
203 // given type) about them.
204 //
205 // NB: currently it doesn't support modifying MIME database (read-only access).
206 class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManager
207 {
208 public:
209 // static helper functions
210 // -----------------------
211
212 // check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second
213 // argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the
214 // types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function
215 // returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE
216 static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
217
218 // ctor
219 wxMimeTypesManager();
220
221 // Database lookup: all functions return a pointer to wxFileType object
222 // whose methods may be used to query it for the information you're
223 // interested in. If the return value is !NULL, caller is responsible for
224 // deleting it.
225 // get file type from file extension
226 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
227 wxFileType *GetOrAllocateFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext);
228 // get file type from MIME type (in format <category>/<format>)
229 wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
230
231 // other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there
232 // were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow)
233 // read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically)
234 // in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description)
235 //
236 // 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the
237 // settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally,
238 // the files read most recently would override the older files, but with
239 // fallback == TRUE this won't happen
240 bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE);
241 // read in additional file in mime.types format
242 bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename);
243
244 // enumerate all known MIME types
245 //
246 // returns the number of retrieved file types
247 size_t EnumAllFileTypes(wxArrayString& mimetypes);
248
249 // these functions can be used to provide default values for some of the
250 // MIME types inside the program itself (you may also use
251 // ReadMailcap(filenameWithDefaultTypes, TRUE /* use as fallback */) to
252 // achieve the same goal, but this requires having this info in a file).
253 //
254 // It isn't possible (currently) to provide fallback icons using this
255 // function.
256 //
257 // The filetypes array should be terminated by a NULL entry
258 void AddFallbacks(const wxFileTypeInfo *filetypes);
259
260 // create a new association between the given extension and MIME type and
261 // return the wxFileType object corresponding (which should be deleted by
262 // caller) or NULL if something went wrong
263 wxFileType *Associate(const wxString& ext,
264 const wxString& mimeType,
265 const wxString& filetype = wxEmptyString,
266 const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString);
267
268 // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from)
269 ~wxMimeTypesManager();
270
271 private:
272 // no copy ctor/assignment operator
273 wxMimeTypesManager(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
274 wxMimeTypesManager& operator=(const wxMimeTypesManager&);
275
276 wxMimeTypesManagerImpl *m_impl;
277
278 // if m_impl is NULL, create one
279 void EnsureImpl();
280
281 friend class wxMimeTypeCmnModule;
282 };
283
284
285 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
286 // global variables
287 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
288
289 // the default mime manager for wxWindows programs
290 WXDLLEXPORT_DATA(extern wxMimeTypesManager *) wxTheMimeTypesManager;
291
292 #endif
293 // wxUSE_FILE
294
295 #endif
296 //_MIMETYPE_H
297
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