tml.storage.importers
Class AbstractImporter

java.lang.Object
  tml.storage.importers.AbstractImporter

Direct Known Subclasses:

HtmlImporter, TextImporter

public abstract class AbstractImporter
extends java.lang.Object

Abstract class for all importers to extend from. It implements the logger a list of file extensions and a static factory to obtain the right importer for a given extension

Author:

Jorge Villalon

Constructor Summary

AbstractImporter()
Creates a new instance of an AbstractImporter.

Method Summary

static Importer	createImporter(java.lang.String fileExtension)
boolean	isValidFileExtension(java.lang.String fileExtension)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractImporter

public AbstractImporter()

Creates a new instance of an AbstractImporter. As this class is an abstract class, this can be called only by the constructor of a sub-class

Method Detail

isValidFileExtension

public boolean isValidFileExtension(java.lang.String fileExtension)

Parameters:

fileExtension - the extension of a filename (e.g. txt, pdf, doc)

Returns:

true if the importer can manage the extension

createImporter

public static Importer createImporter(java.lang.String fileExtension)

Parameters:

fileExtension - the file extension to validate

Returns:

an importer to manage files of the given extension