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Class DocumentFormat

src/main/java/gate/DocumentFormat.java:52–706  ·  view source on GitHub ↗

The format of Documents. Subclasses of DocumentFormat know about particular MIME types and how to unpack the information in any markup or formatting they contain into GATE annotations. Each MIME type has its own subclass of DocumentFormat, e.g. XmlDocumentFormat, RtfDocumentFormat, MpegDocumentForma

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50 * format class for a particular document.
51 */
52public abstract class DocumentFormat
53extends AbstractLanguageResource {
54
55 private static final long serialVersionUID = 4147880563349143923L;
56
57 /** The MIME type of this format. */
58 private MimeType mimeType = null;
59
60 /** Map of MimeTypeString to ClassHandler class. This is used to find the
61 * language resource that deals with the specific Document format
62 */
63 protected static final Map<String, DocumentFormat>
64 mimeString2ClassHandlerMap = new HashMap<String, DocumentFormat>();
65 /** Map of MimeType to DocumentFormat Class. This is used to find the
66 * DocumentFormat subclass that deals with a particular MIME type.
67 */
68 protected static final Map<String, MimeType>
69 mimeString2mimeTypeMap = new HashMap<String, MimeType>();
70
71 /** Map of Set of file suffixes to MimeType. This is used to figure
72 * out what MIME type a document is from its file name.
73 */
74 protected static final Map<String, MimeType>
75 suffixes2mimeTypeMap = new HashMap<String, MimeType>();
76
77 /** Map of Set of magic numbers to MimeType. This is used to guess the
78 * MIME type of a document, when we don't have any other clues.
79 */
80 protected static final Map<String, MimeType>
81 magic2mimeTypeMap = new HashMap<String, MimeType>();
82
83 /** Map of markup elements to annotation types. If it is null, the
84 * unpackMarkup() method will convert all markup, using the element names
85 * for annotation types. If it is non-null, only those elements specified
86 * here will be converted.
87 */
88 protected Map<String,String> markupElementsMap = null;
89
90 /** This map is used inside uppackMarkup() method...
91 * When an element from the map is encounted, The corresponding string
92 * element is added to the document content
93 */
94 protected Map<String,String> element2StringMap = null;
95
96 /** The features of this resource */
97 private FeatureMap features = null;
98
99 /** Default construction */
100 public DocumentFormat() {}
101
102 /** listeners for status report */
103 private transient Vector<StatusListener> statusListeners;
104
105 /** Flag for enable/disable collecting of repositioning information */
106 private Boolean shouldCollectRepositioning = Boolean.FALSE;
107
108 /** If the document format could collect repositioning information
109 * during the unpack phase this method will return <B>true</B>.

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