Derek Hulley 20068f981b Upgraded to Hibernate 3.2.1
The code changes were pulled from the fix branch and V1.4 (HIBERNATE_UPGRADE 5207 5293)
   The jars were manually dropped in again due to the new directory structure


git-svn-id: https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-enterprise/alfresco/HEAD/root@5303 c4b6b30b-aa2e-2d43-bbcb-ca4b014f7261
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Jesper Steen Møller
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
* As a special exception to the terms and conditions of version 2.0 of
* the GPL, you may redistribute this Program in connection with Free/Libre
* and Open Source Software ("FLOSS") applications as described in Alfresco's
* FLOSS exception. You should have recieved a copy of the text describing
* the FLOSS exception, and it is also available here:
* http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing"
*/
package org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Map;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentReader;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
/**
* Interface for document property extracters.
*
* @author Jesper Steen Møller
* @author Derek Hulley
*/
public interface MetadataExtracter
{
/**
* Provides the approximate accuracy with which this extracter can extract
* metadata for the mimetype.
* <p>
*
* @param sourceMimetype the source mimetype
* @return Returns a score 0.0 to 1.0. 0.0 indicates that the extraction
* cannot be performed at all. 1.0 indicates that the extraction can
* be performed perfectly.
*/
public double getReliability(String sourceMimetype);
/**
* Provides an estimate, usually a worst case guess, of how long an
* extraction will take.
* <p>
* This method is used to determine, up front, which of a set of equally
* reliant transformers will be used for a specific extraction.
*
* @return Returns the approximate number of milliseconds per transformation
*/
public long getExtractionTime();
/**
* Extracts the metadata from the content provided by the reader and source
* mimetype to the supplied map.
* <p>
* The extraction viability can be determined by an up front call to
* {@link #getReliability(String)}.
* <p>
* The source mimetype <b>must</b> be available on the
* {@link org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentAccessor#getMimetype()} method
* of the reader.
* <p>
* <b>Note:</b> Internally, the extracter may need to perform a mapping of document-specific
* properties to <code>QName</code>. This is an implementation detail that is
* supported in the default abstract implementations.
*
* @param reader the source of the content
* @param destination the map of properties to populate (essentially a return value)
* @throws ContentIOException if a detectable error occurs
*
* @see #extract(ContentReader, Map, Map)
*/
public void extract(ContentReader reader, Map<QName, Serializable> destination) throws ContentIOException;
/**
*
*
* @param reader the source of the content
* @param destination the map of properties to populate (essentially a return value)
* @param propertyMapping a mapping of internal (document-specific properties) to system
* properties.
* @throws ContentIOException if a detectable error occurs
*
* @see #extract(ContentReader, Map)
*/
public void extract(
ContentReader reader,
Map<QName, Serializable> destination,
Map<String, QName> propertyMapping) throws ContentIOException;
}