From 05ee39235165940916eb26f505199f6c3b4605ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew C. Oliver" Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:00:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] package docs git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@352192 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/java/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package.html | 142 +++------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package.html b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package.html index a4699c9f0..528db6218 100644 --- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package.html +++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package.html @@ -1,133 +1,21 @@ - - + - - HPSF - + + + - -
+Horrible Property Set Format API is a way to read things like Document Summary information from +OLE 2 Compound Document files. -

Processes streams in the Horrible Property Set Format (HPSF) in POI - filesystems. Microsoft Office documents, i.e. POI filesystems, usually - contain meta data like author, title, last editing date etc. These items - are called properties and stored in - property set streams along with the document itself. These - streams are commonly named \005SummaryInformation and - \005DocumentSummaryInformation. However, a POI filesystem may - contain further property sets of other names or types.

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Related Documentation

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In order to extract the properties from a POI filesystem, a property set - stream's contents must be parsed into a {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} instance. Its subclasses {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation} and {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation} deal with the well-known - property set streams \005SummaryInformation and - \005DocumentSummaryInformation. (However, the streams' names are - irrelevant. What counts is the property set's first section's format ID - - see below.)

+For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see: + -

The factory method {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySetFactory#create} - creates a {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} instance. This method - always returns the most specific property set: If it - identifies the stream data as a Summary Information or as a Document - Summary Information it returns an instance of the corresponding class, else - the general {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}.

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A {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} contains a list of {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}s which can be retrieved with {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet#getSections}. Each {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section} contains a {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property} array which can be retrieved with {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getProperties}. Since the vast majority of - {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}s contains only a single {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}, the convenience method {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet#getProperties} returns the properties of a - {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}'s {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section} (throwing a {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.NoSingleSectionException} if the {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} contains more (or less) than exactly one - {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}).

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Each {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property} has an ID, a - type, and a value which can be retrieved - with {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getID}, {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getType}, and {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getValue}, respectively. The value's class - depends on the property's type. The current implementation - does not yet support all property types and restricts the values' classes - to {@link java.lang.String}, {@link java.lang.Integer} and {@link - java.util.Date}. A value of a yet unknown type is returned as a byte array - containing the value's origin bytes from the property set stream.

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To retrieve the value of a specific {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property}, - use {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getProperty} or {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getPropertyIntValue}.

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The {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation} and {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation} classes provide convenience - methods for retrieving well-known properties. For example, an application - that wants to retrieve a document's title string just calls {@link - org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation#getTitle} instead of going through - the hassle of first finding out what the title's property ID is and then - using this ID to get the property's value.

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To Do

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The following is still left to be implemented:

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- @author Rainer Klute (klute@rainer-klute.de) - @version $Id$ - @since 2002-02-09 -

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- - + +@see org.apache.poi.poifs +@see org.apache.poi.hssf + - -