Package org.apache.poi.poifs.property

Class PropertyTable

java.lang.Object

org.apache.poi.poifs.property.PropertyTable

All Implemented Interfaces:

BATManaged

public final class PropertyTable
extends java.lang.Object
implements BATManaged

This class embodies the Property Table for a POIFSFileSystem; this is basically the directory for all of the documents in the filesystem and looks up entries in the filesystem to their chain of blocks.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PropertyTable(HeaderBlock headerBlock)
PropertyTable(HeaderBlock headerBlock, POIFSFileSystem filesystem)	reading constructor (used when we've read in a file and we want to extract the property table from it).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addProperty(Property property)	Add a property to the list of properties we manage
int	countBlocks()	Return the number of BigBlock's this instance uses
RootProperty	getRoot()	Get the root property
int	getStartBlock()	Get the start block for the property table
void	preWrite()	Prepare to be written
void	removeProperty(Property property)	Remove a property from the list of properties we manage
void	setStartBlock(int index)	Set the start block for this instance
void	write(POIFSStream stream)	Writes the properties out into the given low-level stream

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PropertyTable

public PropertyTable(HeaderBlock headerBlock)

PropertyTable

public PropertyTable(HeaderBlock headerBlock,
                     POIFSFileSystem filesystem)
              throws java.io.IOException

reading constructor (used when we've read in a file and we want to extract the property table from it). Populates the properties thoroughly

Parameters:

headerBlock - the header block of the file

filesystem - the filesystem to read from

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if anything goes wrong (which should be a result of the input being NFG)

Method Detail

addProperty

public void addProperty(Property property)

Add a property to the list of properties we manage

Parameters:

property - the new Property to manage

removeProperty

public void removeProperty(Property property)

Remove a property from the list of properties we manage

Parameters:

property - the Property to be removed

getRoot

public RootProperty getRoot()

Get the root property

Returns:

the root property

getStartBlock

public int getStartBlock()

Get the start block for the property table

Returns:

start block index

setStartBlock

public void setStartBlock(int index)

Set the start block for this instance

Specified by:

setStartBlock in interface BATManaged

Parameters:

index - index into the array of BigBlock instances making up the the filesystem

countBlocks

public int countBlocks()

Return the number of BigBlock's this instance uses

Specified by:

countBlocks in interface BATManaged

Returns:

count of BigBlock instances

preWrite

public void preWrite()

Prepare to be written

write

public void write(POIFSStream stream)
           throws java.io.IOException

Writes the properties out into the given low-level stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException