Paul Holmes-Higgin 31c250682b Changed licence headers
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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.
*/
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;
/**
*
* @author Jesper Steen Møller
*/
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.
*
* @param reader the source of the content
* @param destination the destination of the extraction
* @throws ContentIOException if an IO exception occurs
*/
public void extract(ContentReader reader, Map<QName, Serializable> destination) throws ContentIOException;
}