Package org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata

Interface MetadataEmbedder

All Superinterfaces:

ContentWorker

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter, DWGMetadataExtracter, HtmlMetadataExtracter, JodConverterMetadataExtracter, MailMetadataExtracter, MP3MetadataExtracter, OfficeMetadataExtracter, OpenDocumentMetadataExtracter, PdfBoxMetadataExtracter, PoiMetadataExtracter, RFC822MetadataExtracter, TikaAudioMetadataExtracter, TikaAutoMetadataExtracter, TikaPoweredMetadataExtracter, TikaSpringConfiguredMetadataExtracter, XmlMetadataExtracter, XPathMetadataExtracter

@AlfrescoPublicApi
public interface MetadataEmbedder
extends ContentWorker

Interface for writing metadata properties back into the content file.

Author:

Ray Gauss II

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	embed(Map<QName,Serializable> properties, ContentReader reader, ContentWriter writer)	Embeds the given properties into the file specified by the given content writer.
boolean	isEmbeddingSupported(String mimetype)	Determines if the extracter works against the given mimetype.

Method Detail

isEmbeddingSupported

boolean isEmbeddingSupported(String mimetype)

Determines if the extracter works against the given mimetype.

Parameters:

mimetype - the document mimetype

Returns:

Returns true if the mimetype is supported, otherwise false.

embed

void embed(Map<QName,Serializable> properties,
           ContentReader reader,
           ContentWriter writer)
    throws ContentIOException

Embeds the given properties into the file specified by the given content writer. *

The embedding viability can be determined by an up front call to isEmbeddingSupported(String).

The source mimetype must be available on the ContentAccessor.getMimetype() method of the writer.

Parameters:

properties - the model properties to embed

reader - the reader for the original source content file

writer - the writer for the content after metadata has been embedded

Throws:

ContentIOException