MetadataService (Restlet API 2.4.4

java.lang.Object
- org.restlet.client.service.Service
- - org.restlet.client.service.MetadataService

```
public class MetadataService
extends Service
```
Application service providing access to metadata and their associated extension names. The list of default mappings is documented in the addCommonExtensions() method.

Internally, the mappings are stored as a list of "extension, metadata" pairs.

Author:

Jerome Louvel

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description

MetadataService()
Constructor.

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`MetadataService()` Constructor.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`void`	`addCommonExtensions()` Adds a common list of associations from extensions to metadata.
`void`	`addExtension(java.lang.String extension, Metadata metadata)` Maps an extension to some metadata (media type, language or character set) to an extension.
`void`	`addExtension(java.lang.String extension, Metadata metadata, boolean preferred)` Maps an extension to some metadata (media type, language or character set) to an extension.
`void`	`clearExtensions()` clears the mappings for all extensions.
`java.util.List<java.lang.String>`	`getAllCharacterSetExtensionNames()` Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to character set.
`java.util.List<CharacterSet>`	`getAllCharacterSets(java.lang.String extension)` Returns all the character sets associated to this extension.
`java.util.List<java.lang.String>`	`getAllEncodingExtensionNames()` Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to encodings.
`java.util.List<java.lang.String>`	`getAllExtensionNames()` Return the ordered list of extension names.
`java.util.List<java.lang.String>`	`getAllLanguageExtensionNames()` Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to languages.
`java.util.List<Language>`	`getAllLanguages(java.lang.String extension)` Returns all the languages associated to this extension.
`java.util.List<java.lang.String>`	`getAllMediaTypeExtensionNames()` Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to media types.
`java.util.List<MediaType>`	`getAllMediaTypes(java.lang.String extension)` Returns all the media types associated to this extension.
`java.util.List<Metadata>`	`getAllMetadata(java.lang.String extension)` Returns all the metadata associated to this extension.
`CharacterSet`	`getCharacterSet(java.lang.String extension)` Returns the character set associated to this extension.
`CharacterSet`	`getDefaultCharacterSet()` Returns the default character set for textual representations.
`Encoding`	`getDefaultEncoding()` Returns the default encoding for representations.
`Language`	`getDefaultLanguage()` Returns the default language for representations.
`MediaType`	`getDefaultMediaType()` Returns the default media type for representations.
`Encoding`	`getEncoding(java.lang.String extension)` Returns the encoding associated to this extension.
`java.lang.String`	`getExtension(Metadata metadata)` Returns the first extension mapping to this metadata.
`Language`	`getLanguage(java.lang.String extension)` Returns the language associated to this extension.
`MediaType`	`getMediaType(java.lang.String extension)` Returns the mediatype associated to this extension.
`Metadata`	`getMetadata(java.lang.String extension)` Returns the metadata associated to this extension.
`void`	`setDefaultCharacterSet(CharacterSet defaultCharacterSet)` Sets the default character set for local representations.
`void`	`setDefaultEncoding(Encoding defaultEncoding)` Sets the default encoding for local representations.
`void`	`setDefaultLanguage(Language defaultLanguage)` Sets the default language for local representations.
`void`	`setDefaultMediaType(MediaType defaultMediaType)` Sets the default media type for local representations.

Methods inherited from class org.restlet.client.service.Service
getContext, isEnabled, isStarted, isStopped, setContext, setEnabled, start, stop

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - MetadataService
```
public MetadataService()
```
    Constructor. Sets the default language to Language.ENGLISH_US, the default encoding to Encoding.IDENTITY (no encoding) and the default media type to MediaType#APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM. It also calls the addCommonExtensions() method.
- Method Detail
  - addCommonExtensions
```
public void addCommonExtensions()
```
    Adds a common list of associations from extensions to metadata.
    The list of languages extensions:
    - en: English
    - es: Spanish
    - fr: French
    The list of character set extensions:
    - ascii: US-ASCII
    The list of media type extensions:
    - ai: PostScript document
    - atom: Atom syndication document
    - au: AU audio file
    - bin: Binary file
    - bmp: Bitmap graphics
    - class: Java bytecode
    - css: CSS stylesheet
    - csv: Comma-separated Values
    - dat: Fixed-width Values
    - dib: Device-Independent Bitmap Graphics
    - doc: Microsoft Word document
    - docx: Microsoft Office Word 2007 document
    - docm: Office Word 2007 macro-enabled document
    - dotx: Office Word 2007 template
    - dotm: Office Word 2007 macro-enabled document template
    - dtd: XML Document Type Definition
    - eps: Encapsulated PostScript
    - exe: Executable File (Microsoft Corporation)
    - fmt: FreeMarker encoding
    - form: Web forms (URL encoded)
    - ftl: FreeMarker encoding
    - gif: GIF image
    - gwt: Java serialized object (using GWT-RPC encoder)
    - hqx: BinHex 4 Compressed Archive (Macintosh)
    - htm, html: HTML document
    - ico: Windows icon (Favicon)
    - jad: Java Application Descriptor file
    - jar: Java Archive
    - java: Java source code
    - jnlp: Java Web start launch file
    - jpe, jpeg, jpg: JPEG image
    - js: JavaScript document
    - jsf: Java Server Faces file
    - json: JavaScript Object Notation document
    - jsonsmile: JavaScript Object Notation smile document
    - kar: Karaoke MIDI file
    - latex: LaTeX document
    - man: Manual file
    - mathml: Mathml XML document
    - mid, midi: MIDI Audio
    - mov, qt: QuickTime video clip (Apple Computer, Inc.)
    - mp2, mp3: MPEG Audio Stream file
    - mp4: MPEG-4 video file
    - mpe, mpeg, mpg: MPEG video clip
    - n3: RDF N3 document
    - nt: RDF N-Triples document
    - odb: OpenDocument Database
    - odc: OpenDocument Chart
    - odf: OpenDocument Formula
    - odg: OpenDocument Drawing
    - odi: OpenDocument Image
    - odm: OpenDocument Master Document
    - odp: OpenDocument Presentation
    - ods: OpenDocument Spreadsheet
    - odt: OpenDocument Text
    - onetoc: Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 TOC
    - onetoc2: Office OneNote 2007 TOC
    - otg: OpenDocument Drawing Template
    - oth: HTML Document Template
    - otp: OpenDocument Presentation Template
    - ots: OpenDocument Spreadsheet Template
    - ott: OpenDocument Text Template
    - oxt: OpenOffice.org extension
    - pdf: Adobe PDF document
    - png: PNG image
    - potm: Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled presentation template
    - potx: Office PowerPoint 2007 template
    - ppam: Office PowerPoint 2007 add-in
    - pps, ppt: Microsoft Powerpoint document
    - ppsm: Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled slide show
    - ppsx: Office PowerPoint 2007 slide show
    - pptm: Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled presentation
    - pptx: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation
    - ps: PostScript document
    - rdf: Description Framework document
    - rnc: Relax NG Schema document, Compact syntax
    - rng: Relax NG Schema document, XML syntax
    - rss: RSS file
    - rtf: Rich Text Format document
    - sav: SPSS Data
    - sit: StuffIt compressed archive file
    - sldm: Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled slide
    - sldx: Office PowerPoint 2007 slide
    - snd: Amiga sound
    - sps: SPSS Script Syntax
    - sta: Stata data file
    - svg: Scalable Vector Graphics file
    - swf: Adobe Flash file
    - tar: Tape Archive file
    - tex: Tex file
    - tif, tiff: Tagged Image Format File
    - tsv: Tab-separated Values
    - txt: Plain text
    - ulw: MU-LAW (US telephony format)
    - vm: Velocity encoding
    - vrml: Virtual Reality Modeling Language file
    - vxml: VoiceXML source file
    - wadl: Web Application Description Language document
    - wav: Waveform audio
    - wrl: Plain text VRML file
    - xht, xhtml: XHTML document
    - xlam: Office Excel 2007 add-in
    - xls: Microsoft Excel document
    - xlsb: Office Excel 2007 binary workbook
    - xlsm: Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled workbook
    - xlsx: Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook
    - xltm: Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled workbook template
    - xltx: Office Excel 2007 template
    - xmi: XMI document
    - xml: XML document
    - xsd: W3C XML Schema document
    - xsl, xslt: XSL Transform file
    - xul: XML User Interface Language file
    - yaml: YAML text format
    - z: UNIX compressed archive file
    - zip: Zip archive
  - addExtension
```
public void addExtension(java.lang.String extension,
                         Metadata metadata)
```
    Maps an extension to some metadata (media type, language or character set) to an extension.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name.
    
    metadata - The metadata to map.
  - addExtension
```
public void addExtension(java.lang.String extension,
                         Metadata metadata,
                         boolean preferred)
```
    Maps an extension to some metadata (media type, language or character set) to an extension.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name.
    
    metadata - The metadata to map.
    
    preferred - indicates if this mapping is the preferred one.
  - clearExtensions
```
public void clearExtensions()
```
    clears the mappings for all extensions.
  - getAllCharacterSetExtensionNames
```
public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllCharacterSetExtensionNames()
```
    Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to character set.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ordered list of extension names mapped to character set.
  - getAllCharacterSets
```
public java.util.List<CharacterSet> getAllCharacterSets(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns all the character sets associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The list of character sets associated to this extension.
  - getAllEncodingExtensionNames
```
public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllEncodingExtensionNames()
```
    Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to encodings.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ordered list of extension names mapped to encodings.
  - getAllExtensionNames
```
public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllExtensionNames()
```
    Return the ordered list of extension names.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ordered list of extension names.
  - getAllLanguageExtensionNames
```
public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllLanguageExtensionNames()
```
    Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to languages.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ordered list of extension names mapped to languages.
  - getAllLanguages
```
public java.util.List<Language> getAllLanguages(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns all the languages associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The list of languages associated to this extension.
  - getAllMediaTypeExtensionNames
```
public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllMediaTypeExtensionNames()
```
    Return the ordered list of extension names mapped to media types.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ordered list of extension names mapped to media types.
  - getAllMediaTypes
```
public java.util.List<MediaType> getAllMediaTypes(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns all the media types associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The list of media type associated to this extension.
  - getAllMetadata
```
public java.util.List<Metadata> getAllMetadata(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns all the metadata associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The list of metadata associated to this extension.
  - getCharacterSet
```
public CharacterSet getCharacterSet(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns the character set associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared of it is corresponds to another type of medatata such as a media type. If several metadata are associated to the same extension then only the first matching metadata is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The character set associated to this extension.
  - getDefaultCharacterSet
```
public CharacterSet getDefaultCharacterSet()
```
    Returns the default character set for textual representations.
    
    Returns:
    
    The default character set for textual representations.
  - getDefaultEncoding
```
public Encoding getDefaultEncoding()
```
    Returns the default encoding for representations.
    
    Returns:
    
    The default encoding for representations.
  - getDefaultLanguage
```
public Language getDefaultLanguage()
```
    Returns the default language for representations.
    
    Returns:
    
    The default language for representations.
  - getDefaultMediaType
```
public MediaType getDefaultMediaType()
```
    Returns the default media type for representations.
    
    Returns:
    
    The default media type for representations.
  - getEncoding
```
public Encoding getEncoding(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns the encoding associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared of it is corresponds to another type of medatata such as a media type. If several metadata are associated to the same extension then only the first matching metadata is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The encoding associated to this extension.
  - getExtension
```
public java.lang.String getExtension(Metadata metadata)
```
    Returns the first extension mapping to this metadata.
    
    Parameters:
    
    metadata - The metadata to find.
    
    Returns:
    
    The first extension mapping to this metadata.
  - getLanguage
```
public Language getLanguage(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns the language associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared of it is corresponds to another type of medatata such as a media type. If several metadata are associated to the same extension then only the first matching metadata is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The language associated to this extension.
  - getMediaType
```
public MediaType getMediaType(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns the mediatype associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared of it is corresponds to another type of medatata such as a language. If several metadata are associated to the same extension (ex: 'xml' for both 'text/xml' and 'application/xml') then only the first matching metadata is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The media type associated to this extension.
  - getMetadata
```
public Metadata getMetadata(java.lang.String extension)
```
    Returns the metadata associated to this extension. It returns null if the extension was not declared. If several metadata are associated to the same extension (ex: 'xml' for both 'text/xml' and 'application/xml') then only the first matching metadata is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    extension - The extension name without any delimiter.
    
    Returns:
    
    The metadata associated to this extension.
  - setDefaultCharacterSet
```
public void setDefaultCharacterSet(CharacterSet defaultCharacterSet)
```
    Sets the default character set for local representations.
    
    Parameters:
    
    defaultCharacterSet - The default character set for local representations.
  - setDefaultEncoding
```
public void setDefaultEncoding(Encoding defaultEncoding)
```
    Sets the default encoding for local representations.
    
    Parameters:
    
    defaultEncoding - The default encoding for local representations.
  - setDefaultLanguage
```
public void setDefaultLanguage(Language defaultLanguage)
```
    Sets the default language for local representations.
    
    Parameters:
    
    defaultLanguage - The default language for local representations.
  - setDefaultMediaType
```
public void setDefaultMediaType(MediaType defaultMediaType)
```
    Sets the default media type for local representations.
    
    Parameters:
    
    defaultMediaType - The default media type for local representations.

Class MetadataService

Constructor Summary

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class org.restlet.client.service.Service

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Constructor Detail

MetadataService

Method Detail

addCommonExtensions

addExtension

addExtension

clearExtensions

getAllCharacterSetExtensionNames

getAllCharacterSets

getAllEncodingExtensionNames

getAllExtensionNames

getAllLanguageExtensionNames

getAllLanguages

getAllMediaTypeExtensionNames

getAllMediaTypes

getAllMetadata

getCharacterSet

getDefaultCharacterSet

getDefaultEncoding

getDefaultLanguage

getDefaultMediaType

getEncoding

getExtension

getLanguage

getMediaType

getMetadata

setDefaultCharacterSet

setDefaultEncoding

setDefaultLanguage

setDefaultMediaType