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1: /* FileObject.java -- 2: Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3: 4: This file is part of GNU Classpath. 5: 6: GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 7: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 9: any later version. 10: 11: GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 12: WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 14: General Public License for more details. 15: 16: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17: along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 18: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 19: 02110-1301 USA. 20: 21: Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 22: making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 23: conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 24: combination. 25: 26: As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 27: permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 28: executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 29: modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 30: terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 31: independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 32: module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 33: or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 34: this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 35: obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 36: exception statement from your version. */ 37: 38: package javax.tools; 39: 40: import java.io.IOException; 41: import java.io.InputStream; 42: import java.io.OutputStream; 43: import java.io.Reader; 44: import java.io.Writer; 45: import java.net.URI; 46: 47: /** 48: * Abstraction for all kinds of file objects used by tools, e.g. regular files, 49: * memory cache, or database data. 50: * 51: * @author Roman Kennke (roman@kennke.org) 52: * 53: * @since 1.6 54: */ 55: public interface FileObject 56: { 57: 58: /** 59: * Returns a URI that represents this file object. 60: * 61: * @return a URI that represents this file object 62: */ 63: URI toURI(); 64: 65: /** 66: * Returns a name for this file object. The exact name is implementation 67: * dependent. 68: * 69: * @return a name for this file object 70: */ 71: String getName(); 72: 73: /** 74: * Opens this file for reading and returns an input stream. 75: * 76: * @return an input stream to read this file object 77: * 78: * @throws IOException if an I/O error occured 79: * @throws IllegalStateException if this file was opened for writing and 80: * does not support reading 81: * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this kind of file does not allow 82: * byte reading 83: */ 84: InputStream openInputStream() throws IOException; 85: 86: /** 87: * Opens this file for writing and returns an output stream. 88: * 89: * @return an output stream for writing this file object 90: * 91: * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 92: * @throws IllegalStateException if this file was opened for reading and 93: * does not support writing 94: * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this kind of file does not allow 95: * byte writing 96: */ 97: OutputStream openOutputStream() throws IOException; 98: 99: /** 100: * Opens this file for reading and returns a reader. 101: * 102: * @return a reader for reading this file object 103: * 104: * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 105: * @throws IllegalStateException if this file was opened for writing and 106: * does not support reading 107: * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this kind of file does not allow 108: * character reading 109: */ 110: Reader openReader() throws IOException; 111: 112: /** 113: * Returns the character content of the file, if available. Any byte 114: * that cannot be decoded will be replaced by the default replacement 115: * character. A diagnostic may be reported, unless 116: * <code>ignoreEncodingErrors</code> is <code>true</code>. 117: * 118: * @param ignoreEncodingErrors <code>true</code> when encoding errors should be ignored 119: * <code>false</code> otherwise 120: * @return the character content, or <code>null</code> if not available 121: * 122: * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 123: */ 124: CharSequence getCharContent(boolean ignoreEncodingErrors) throws IOException; 125: 126: /** 127: * Opens this file for writer and returns a writer. 128: * 129: * @return a writer for writing this file object 130: * 131: * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 132: * @throws IllegalStateException if this file was opened for reading and 133: * does not support writing 134: * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this kind of file does not allow 135: * character writing 136: */ 137: Writer openWriter() throws IOException; 138: 139: /** 140: * Returns the time when the file was last modified. The time is measured 141: * like in <code>System.currentTimeMillis()</code>. 142: * 143: * @return the time when the file was last modified 144: */ 145: long getLastModified(); 146: 147: /** 148: * Deletes this file object. In case of errors this returns 149: * <code>false</code>. 150: * 151: * @return <code>true</code> when the file deletion was successful, 152: * <code>false</code> otherwise 153: */ 154: boolean delete(); 155: }
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