<html> <head> <title>Interface XFileIdentifierConverter</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../idl.css"> </head> <body> <div id="adc-idlref"> <a name="_top_"> </a><table class="navimain" border="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td class="navimain"><a href="../module-ix.html" class="navimain">Overview</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="module-ix.html" class="navimain">Module</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="XFileIdentifierConverter-xref.html" class="navimain">Use</a></td> <td class="navimainnone">Devguide</td> <td class="navimain"><a href="../../../../index-files/index-1.html" class="navimain">Index</a></td> </tr> </table> <table class="navisub" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="navisub"><a href="#MethodsSummary" class="navisub">Methods' Summary</a></td> <td class="navisub"><a href="#MethodsDetails" class="navisub">Methods' Details</a></td> <td class="navisub">Attributes' Summary</td> <td class="navisub">Attributes' Details</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" class="title-table" style="margin-bottom:6pt;"> <tr> <td><p class="namechain"><a href="../../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">::</a> <a href="../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">com</a> :: <a href="../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">sun</a> :: <a href="../module-ix.html" class="namechain">star</a> :: <a href="module-ix.html" class="namechain">ucb</a> :: </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="title">interface XFileIdentifierConverter</td> </tr> <tr> <td/></tr> <tr> <td><dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>specifies methods to convert between (file) URLs and file paths in system dependent notation. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <a name="MethodsSummary"/><table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="subtitle"> <tr> <td class="subtitle" colspan="2">Methods' Summary</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="#getFileProviderLocality">getFileProviderLocality</a></td> <td class="imsum_right">Get information about the 'locality' of a file content provider. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="#getFileURLFromSystemPath">getFileURLFromSystemPath</a></td> <td class="imsum_right">converts a file path in system dependent notation to a (file) URL. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="#getSystemPathFromFileURL">getSystemPathFromFileURL</a></td> <td class="imsum_right">converts a (file) URL to a file path in system dependent notation. </td> </tr> </table> <a name="MethodsDetails"/><table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="subtitle"> <tr> <td class="subtitle">Methods' Details</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imdetail"><a name="getFileProviderLocality" class="membertitle">getFileProviderLocality</a><table border="0" width="96%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="table-in-method" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tr> <td><table class="table-in-method" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3">long</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>getFileProviderLocality</b>(</td> <td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> BaseURL );</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>Get information about the 'locality' of a file content provider. </dd> <dd><p>The returned information can be used to chose the 'best' among a number of file content providers implementing this interface. </dd> <dt><b>Parameter BaseURL</b></dt> <dd>the base (file) URL used to specify a file content provider. </dd> <dt><b>Returns</b></dt> <dd>an appropriat value representing the 'locality' of the specified file content provider. Generally, higher (non-negative) numbers denote file content providers that are more 'local', and negative numbers denote content providers that are not file content providers at all. As a convention (and to keep this useful), values should be restricted to the range from -1 to +10, inclusive. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imdetail"><a name="getFileURLFromSystemPath" class="membertitle">getFileURLFromSystemPath</a><table border="0" width="96%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="table-in-method" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tr> <td><table class="table-in-method" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3">string</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>getFileURLFromSystemPath</b>(</td> <td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> BaseURL,</td> </tr> <tr> <td/><td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> SystemPath );</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>converts a file path in system dependent notation to a (file) URL. </dd> <dt><b>Parameter BaseURL</b></dt> <dd>the base (file) URL relative to which the file path shall be interpreted. </dd> <dt><b>Parameter SystemPath</b></dt> <dd>a file path in system dependent notation. </dd> <dt><b>Returns</b></dt> <dd>the URL corresponding to the file path, or an empty string if the file path cannot be converted into a URL. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imdetail"><a name="getSystemPathFromFileURL" class="membertitle">getSystemPathFromFileURL</a><table border="0" width="96%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="table-in-method" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tr> <td><table class="table-in-method" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3">string</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>getSystemPathFromFileURL</b>(</td> <td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> URL );</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>converts a (file) URL to a file path in system dependent notation. </dd> <dt><b>Parameter URL</b></dt> <dd>a (file) URL. </dd> <dt><b>Returns</b></dt> <dd>the file path corresponding to the URL, or an empty string if the URL cannot be converted into a file path. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <a href="#_top_">Top of Page</a><hr size="3"><p class="copyright" align="center">Copyright © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p> </div> <!-- id="adc-idlref" --> </body> </html>