wxWidgets/interface/wx/mimetype.h
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// Name: mimetype.h
// Purpose: interface of wxMimeTypesManager
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
@class wxMimeTypesManager
This class allows the application to retrieve informations about all known
MIME types from a system-specific location and the filename extensions to the
MIME types and vice versa.
MIME stands for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions" and was originally
used in mail protocols. It's standardized by several RFCs.
Under Windows, the MIME type information is queried from registry.
Under Linux and Unix, it is queried from the XDG data directories.
Currently, wxMimeTypesManager is limited to @e reading MIME type information.
The application should not construct its own manager: it should use the
object pointer ::wxTheMimeTypesManager.
The functions GetFileTypeFromMimeType() and GetFileTypeFromExtension()
return a wxFileType object which may be further queried for file description,
icon and other attributes.
@section mimetypemanager_helpers Helper functions
All of these functions are static (i.e. don't need a wxMimeTypesManager object
to call them) and provide some useful operations for string representations of
MIME types. Their usage is recommended instead of directly working with MIME
types using wxString functions.
- wxMimeTypesManager::IsOfType()
@section mimetypemanager_query Query database
These functions are the heart of this class: they allow to find a file type
object from either file extension or MIME type.
If the function is successful, it returns a pointer to the wxFileType object
which must be deleted by the caller, otherwise @NULL will be returned.
- wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType()
- wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension()
@library{wxbase}
@category{cfg}
@see wxFileType
*/
class wxMimeTypesManager
{
public:
/**
Constructor puts the object in the "working" state.
*/
wxMimeTypesManager();
/**
Destructor is not virtual, so this class should not be derived from.
*/
~wxMimeTypesManager();
/**
This function may be used to provide hard-wired fallbacks for the MIME types
and extensions that might not be present in the system MIME database.
Please see the typetest sample for an example of using it.
*/
void AddFallbacks(const wxFileTypeInfo* fallbacks);
/**
Gather information about the files with given extension and return the
corresponding wxFileType object or @NULL if the extension is unknown.
The @a extension parameter may have, or not, the leading dot, if it has it,
it is stripped automatically. It must not however be empty.
*/
wxFileType* GetFileTypeFromExtension(const wxString& extension);
/**
Gather information about the files with given MIME type and return the
corresponding wxFileType object or @NULL if the MIME type is unknown.
*/
wxFileType* GetFileTypeFromMimeType(const wxString& mimeType);
/**
This function returns @true if either the given @a mimeType is exactly
the same as @a wildcard or if it has the same category and the subtype of
@a wildcard is '*'. Note that the '*' wildcard is not allowed in
@a mimeType itself.
The comparison don by this function is case insensitive so it is not
necessary to convert the strings to the same case before calling it.
*/
static bool IsOfType(const wxString& mimeType, const wxString& wildcard);
};
/**
The global wxMimeTypesManager instance.
*/
wxMimeTypesManager* wxTheMimeTypesManager;
/**
@class wxFileType
This class holds information about a given @e 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 several different ways: the program might know the
file extension and wish to find out the corresponding MIME type or, conversely, it
might want to find the right extension for the file to which it writes the
contents of given MIME type. Depending on how it was created some fields may be
unknown so the return value of all the accessors @b must be checked: @false
will be returned if the corresponding information couldn't be found.
The objects of this class are never created by the application code but are
returned by wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType and
wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension methods.
But it is your responsibility to delete the returned pointer when you're done
with it!
A brief reminder about what the MIME types are (see the RFC 1341 for more
information): basically, it is just a pair category/type (for example,
"text/plain") where the category is a basic indication of what a file is.
Examples of categories are "application", "image", "text", "binary", and
type is a precise definition of the document format: "plain" in the example
above means just ASCII text without any formatting, while "text/html" is the
HTML document source.
A MIME type may have one or more associated extensions: "text/plain" will
typically correspond to the extension ".txt", but may as well be associated with
".ini" or ".conf".
@section filetype_example MessageParameters class
One of the most common usages of MIME is to encode an e-mail message.
The MIME type of the encoded message is an example of a message parameter.
These parameters are found in the message headers ("Content-XXX").
At the very least, they must specify the MIME type and the version of MIME
used, but almost always they provide additional information about the message
such as the original file name or the charset (for the text documents).
These parameters may be useful to the program used to open, edit, view or
print the message, so, for example, an e-mail client program will have to
pass them to this program. Because wxFileType itself can not know about
these parameters, it uses MessageParameters class to query them.
The default implementation only requires the caller to provide the file name
(always used by the program to be called - it must know which file to open)
and the MIME type and supposes that there are no other parameters.
If you wish to supply additional parameters, you must derive your own class
from MessageParameters and override GetParamValue() function, for example:
@code
// provide the message parameters for the MIME type manager
class MailMessageParameters : public wxFileType::MessageParameters
{
public:
MailMessageParameters(const wxString& filename,
const wxString& mimetype)
: wxFileType::MessageParameters(filename, mimetype)
{
}
virtual wxString GetParamValue(const wxString& name) const
{
// parameter names are not case-sensitive
if ( name.CmpNoCase("charset") == 0 )
return "US-ASCII";
else
return wxFileType::MessageParameters::GetParamValue(name);
}
};
@endcode
Now you only need to create an object of this class and pass it to, for example,
GetOpenCommand like this:
@code
wxString command;
if ( filetype->GetOpenCommand(&command,
MailMessageParameters("foo.txt", "text/plain")) )
{
// the full command for opening the text documents is in 'command'
// (it might be "notepad foo.txt" under Windows or "cat foo.txt" under Unix)
}
else
{
// we don't know how to handle such files...
}
@endcode
Windows: As only the file name is used by the program associated with the
given extension anyhow (but no other message parameters), there is no need
to ever derive from MessageParameters class for a Windows-only program.
@library{wxbase}
@category{data}
@see wxMimeTypesManager
*/
class wxFileType
{
private:
/**
The default constructor is private because you should never create objects of
this type: they are only returned by wxMimeTypesManager methods.
*/
wxFileType();
public:
/**
Copy ctor.
*/
wxFileType(const wxFileTypeInfo& ftInfo);
/**
The destructor of this class is not virtual, so it should not be derived from.
*/
~wxFileType();
/**
This function is primarily intended for GetOpenCommand and GetPrintCommand
usage but may be also used by the application directly if, for example, you
want to use some non-default command to open the file.
The function replaces all occurrences of:
- %s with the full file name
- %t with the MIME type
- %{param} with the value of the parameter @e param
using the MessageParameters object you pass to it.
If there is no '%s' in the command string (and the string is not empty), it is
assumed that the command reads the data on stdin and so the effect is the same
as " %s" were appended to the string.
Unlike all other functions of this class, there is no error return for this
function.
*/
static wxString ExpandCommand(const wxString& command,
const MessageParameters& params);
/**
If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a desc is filled
with a brief description for this file type: for example, "text document" for
the "text/plain" MIME type.
*/
bool GetDescription(wxString* desc) const;
/**
If the function returns @true, the array @a extensions is filled
with all extensions associated with this file type: for example, it may
contain the following two elements for the MIME type "text/html"
(notice the absence of the leading dot): "html" and "htm".
@b Windows: This function is currently not implemented: there is no
(efficient) way to retrieve associated extensions from the given MIME type
on this platform, so it will only return @true if the wxFileType object was
created by wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension function in the
first place.
*/
bool GetExtensions(wxArrayString& extensions);
/**
If the function returns @true, the @c iconLoc is filled with the
location of the icon for this MIME type.
A wxIcon may be created from @a iconLoc later.
@b Windows: The function returns the icon shown by Explorer for the files of
the specified type.
@b Mac: This function is not implemented and always returns @false.
@b Unix: MIME manager gathers information about icons from GNOME
and KDE settings and thus GetIcon's success depends on availability
of these desktop environments.
*/
bool GetIcon(wxIconLocation* iconLoc) const;
/**
If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a mimeType is filled
with full MIME type specification for this file type: for example, "text/plain".
*/
bool GetMimeType(wxString* mimeType) const;
/**
Same as GetMimeType() but returns array of MIME types.
This array will contain only one item in most cases but sometimes,
notably under Unix with KDE, may contain more MIME types.
This happens when one file extension is mapped to different MIME types
by KDE, mailcap and mime.types.
*/
bool GetMimeTypes(wxArrayString& mimeTypes) const;
//@{
/**
With the first version of this method, if the @true is returned, the
string pointed to by @a command is filled with the command which must be
executed (see wxExecute()) in order to open the file of the given type.
In this case, the name of the file as well as any other parameters
is retrieved from MessageParameters() class.
In the second case, only the filename is specified and the command to be used
to open this kind of file is returned directly. An empty string is returned to
indicate that an error occurred (typically meaning that there is no standard way
to open this kind of files).
*/
bool GetOpenCommand(wxString* command, const MessageParameters& params);
wxString GetOpenCommand(const wxString& filename) const;
//@}
/**
If the function returns @true, the string pointed to by @a command is filled
with the command which must be executed (see wxExecute()) in order to
print the file of the given type.
The name of the file is retrieved from the MessageParameters class.
*/
bool GetPrintCommand(wxString* command,
const MessageParameters& params) const;
};