Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of ApertureDataSource

Timestamp:

10/12/05 13:56:51 (19 years ago)

Author:

dburkhar

Comment:

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ApertureDataSource

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 A specific link extractor is therefore mimetype-specific. In order to know which link extractor to use, one first needs to know the mime type of the starting resource, which is handled by the first component.
+
+== Java Interface ==
+{{{
+public interface DataSource {
+
+        /**
+         * Gets the id of this data source.
+         * 
+         * @return A identifier for the data source.
+         */
+        public String getID();
+
+        /**
+         * Set the ID of this data source.
+         * 
+         * @param id the new ID
+         */
+        public void setID(String id);
+
+        /**
+         * Gets the name of this data source.
+         * 
+         * @return A descriptive name for the data source.
+         */
+        public String getName();
+
+        /**
+         * Sets the name of this data source.
+         * 
+         * @param name A descriptive name for the data source.
+         */
+        public void setName(String name);
+
+        /**
+         * Set a configuration attribute supported by the specific datasource
+         * implementation class. Unknown elements and incorrectly encoded attributes
+     * end element text are silently ignored.
+     * 
+     * @param attributeName The XML element name used to identify the configuration attribute.
+     * @param atts The element's attributes, encoded as a Map of key-value-pairs.
+     * @param text the element's textual contents. 
+         */
+        public void setConfigAttribute(String attributeName, Map<String, String> atts, String text);
+
+        /**
+         * Writes all config attributes of the datasource to a given XML writer.
+     * 
+     * @param xmlWriter the XMLWriter to which the config attributes will be written.
+     * @throws IOException passed on by the XMLWriter.
+         */
+        public void writeConfigAttributes(XmlWriter xmlWriter) throws IOException;
+}
+}}}