com.ice.tar

Class TarTransFileTyper


public class TarTransFileTyper
extends Object

This interface indicates if a file qualifies for ASCII translation. To support customization of TAR translation, this interface allows the programmer to provide an object that will check files that do not match the MIME types file's check for 'text/*' types. To provide your own typer, subclass this class and set the TarArchive's TransFileTyper via the method setTransFileTyper().

Method Summary

boolean
isAsciiFile(File f)
Return true if the file should be translated as ASCII.
boolean
isAsciiFile(String name)
Return true if the file should be translated as ASCII based on its name.

Method Details

isAsciiFile

public boolean isAsciiFile(File f)
Return true if the file should be translated as ASCII.
Parameters:
f - The file to be checked to see if it need ASCII translation.

isAsciiFile

public boolean isAsciiFile(String name)
Return true if the file should be translated as ASCII based on its name. The file DOES NOT EXIST. This is called during extract, so all we know is the file name.
Parameters:
name - The name of the file to be checked to see if it need ASCII translation.

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