com.arsdigita.search.converter
Class BaseConverter

java.lang.Object
  com.arsdigita.search.converter.BaseConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Converter

Direct Known Subclasses:

ExcelConverter, OOConverter, PDFConverter, TextConverter, WordConverter

public abstract class BaseConverter

extends Object

implements Converter

This class provides the mechanism to perform a conversion from Excel to standard text

Constructor Summary

BaseConverter()

Method Summary

String	convertDocument(byte[] document) This takes in a document represented as a byte[] and returns a text representation of that document.
String	convertDocument(File document) This takes the document and returns a String containing the contents of the document.
protected abstract String[]	getFileExtensions() Returns a string array representing all of the files types used by the given converter
MimeType[]	getMimeTypes() This returns an array of all MimeTypes that this converter is able to convert to a String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.arsdigita.search.converter.Converter

convertDocument

Constructor Detail

BaseConverter

public BaseConverter()

Method Detail

convertDocument

public String convertDocument(byte[] document)

This takes in a document represented as a byte[] and returns a text representation of that document.

Specified by:

convertDocument in interface Converter

convertDocument

public String convertDocument(File document)
                       throws FileNotFoundException

This takes the document and returns a String containing the contents of the document.

Specified by:

convertDocument in interface Converter

Throws:

FileNotFoundException

getFileExtensions

protected abstract String[] getFileExtensions()

Returns a string array representing all of the files types used by the given converter

getMimeTypes

public MimeType[] getMimeTypes()

This returns an array of all MimeTypes that this converter is able to convert to a String.

Specified by:

getMimeTypes in interface Converter