///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: wx/mimetype.h // Purpose: classes and functions to manage MIME types // Author: Vadim Zeitlin // Modified by: // Created: 23.09.98 // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Copyright: (c) 1998 Vadim Zeitlin // Licence: wxWindows license (part of wxExtra library) ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #ifndef _MIMETYPE_H #define _MIMETYPE_H // fwd decls class wxIcon; class wxFileTypeImpl; class wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; #include "wx/defs.h" #if wxUSE_FILE // the things we really need #include "wx/string.h" // This class holds information about a given "file type". File type is the // same as MIME type under Unix, but under Windows it corresponds more to an // extension than to MIME type (in fact, several extensions may correspond to a // file type). This object may be created in many different ways and depending // on how it was created some fields may be unknown so the return value of all // the accessors *must* be checked! class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileType { friend class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManagerImpl; // it has access to m_impl public: // An object of this class must be passed to Get{Open|Print}Command. The // default implementation is trivial and doesn't know anything at all about // parameters, only filename and MIME type are used (so it's probably ok for // Windows where %{param} is not used anyhow) class MessageParameters { public: // ctors MessageParameters() { } MessageParameters(const wxString& filename, const wxString& mimetype) : m_filename(filename), m_mimetype(mimetype) { } // accessors (called by GetOpenCommand) // filename const wxString& GetFileName() const { return m_filename; } // mime type const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimetype; } // override this function in derived class virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& WXUNUSED(paramName)) const { return ""; } // virtual dtor as in any base class virtual ~MessageParameters() { } protected: wxString m_filename, m_mimetype; }; // accessors: all of them return true if the corresponding information // could be retrieved/found, false otherwise (and in this case all [out] // parameters are unchanged) // return the MIME type for this file type bool GetMimeType(wxString *mimeType) const; // fill passed in array with all extensions associated with this file // type bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions); // get the icon corresponding to this file type bool GetIcon(wxIcon *icon) const; // get a brief file type description ("*.txt" => "text document") bool GetDescription(wxString *desc) const; // get the command to be used to open/print the given file. // get the command to execute the file of given type bool GetOpenCommand(wxString *openCmd, const MessageParameters& params) const; // get the command to print the file of given type bool GetPrintCommand(wxString *printCmd, const MessageParameters& params) const; // operations // expand a string in the format of GetOpenCommand (which may contain // '%s' and '%t' format specificators for the file name and mime type // and %{param} constructions). static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command, const MessageParameters& params); // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from) ~wxFileType(); private: // default ctor is private because the user code never creates us wxFileType(); // no copy ctor/assignment operator wxFileType(const wxFileType&); wxFileType& operator=(const wxFileType&); wxFileTypeImpl *m_impl; }; // This class is only used wuth wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks() and is meant // just as the container for the wxFileType data. class WXDLLEXPORT wxFileTypeInfo { public: // ctors // a normal item wxFileTypeInfo(const char *mimeType, const char *openCmd, const char *printCmd, const char *desc, // the other parameters form a NULL terminated list of // extensions ...); // invalid item - use this to terminate the array passed to // wxMimeTypesManager::AddFallbacks wxFileTypeInfo() { } bool IsValid() const { return !m_mimeType.IsEmpty(); } // accessors // get the MIME type const wxString& GetMimeType() const { return m_mimeType; } // get the open command const wxString& GetOpenCommand() const { return m_openCmd; } // get the print command const wxString& GetPrintCommand() const { return m_printCmd; } // get the description const wxString& GetDescription() const { return m_desc; } // get the array of all extensions const wxArrayString& GetExtensions() const { return m_exts; } private: wxString m_mimeType, // the MIME type in "type/subtype" form m_openCmd, // command to use for opening the file (%s allowed) m_printCmd, // command to use for printing the file (%s allowed) m_desc; // a free form description of this file type wxArrayString m_exts; // the extensions which are mapped on this filetype }; // This class accesses the information about all known MIME types and allows // the application to retrieve information (including how to handle data of // given type) about them. // // NB: currently it doesn't support modifying MIME database (read-only access). class WXDLLEXPORT wxMimeTypesManager { public: // static helper functions // ----------------------- // check if the given MIME type is the same as the other one: the second // argument may contain wildcards ('*'), but not the first. If the // types are equal or if the mimeType matches wildcard the function // returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard); // ctor wxMimeTypesManager(); // Database lookup: all functions return a pointer to wxFileType object // whose methods may be used to query it for the information you're // interested in. If the return value is !NULL, caller is responsible for // deleting it. // get file type from file extension wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& ext); // get file type from MIME type (in format /) wxFileType *GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType); // other operations: return TRUE if there were no errors or FALSE if there // were some unreckognized entries (the good entries are always read anyhow) // read in additional file (the standard ones are read automatically) // in mailcap format (see mimetype.cpp for description) // // 'fallback' parameter may be set to TRUE to avoid overriding the // settings from other, previously parsed, files by this one: normally, // the files read most recently would override the older files, but with // fallback == TRUE this won't happen bool ReadMailcap(const wxString& filename, bool fallback = FALSE); // read in additional file in mime.types format bool ReadMimeTypes(const wxString& filename); // enumerate all known MIME types // // returns the number of retrieved file types size_t EnumAllFileTypes(wxArrayString& mimetypes); // these functions can be used to provide default values for some of the // MIME types inside the program itself (you may also use // ReadMailcap(filenameWithDefaultTypes, TRUE /* use as fallback */) to // achieve the same goal, but this requires having this info in a file). // // It isn't possible (currently) to provide fallback icons using this // function. // // The filetypes array should be terminated by a NULL entry void AddFallbacks(const wxFileTypeInfo *filetypes); // dtor (not virtual, shouldn't be derived from) ~wxMimeTypesManager(); private: // no copy ctor/assignment operator wxMimeTypesManager(const wxMimeTypesManager&); wxMimeTypesManager& operator=(const wxMimeTypesManager&); wxMimeTypesManagerImpl *m_impl; }; #endif // wxUSE_FILE #endif //_MIMETYPE_H /* vi: set cin tw=80 ts=4 sw=4: */