edu.uky.rch.ept.data
Interface IImageAccessMethods

All Known Subinterfaces:

IDataAccessMethods, IDataSourceDriver

All Known Implementing Classes:

DataFactory, DataSourceDriver, Project, Repository

public interface IImageAccessMethods

This interface defines all the image data access methods. Wherever addresses are involved in creating new resources, all non-existing collections in the specified path to the resource will be created automatically.

All the methods throw the following exceptions:

• NullAddressException - if the address specified is null
• MalformedAddressException - if the address specified is not a proper URI
• UnknownProtocolException - if there is no driver registered for the protocol specified in the address
• IOException - if a low level IO error occurs during processing

Author:

Sandeep Bodapati

Method Summary

org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData	getImage(String address) Retrieves the Image from the specified address
boolean	storeImage(String address, URL source, boolean force) Imports the image from the source & stores it at the given address.

Method Detail

getImage

public org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData getImage(String address)
                                            throws MalformedAddressException,
                                                   ResourceNotFoundException,
                                                   IOException

Retrieves the Image from the specified address

Parameters:

address - address of the Image

Returns:

an ImageData object corresponding to the image

Throws:

ResourceNotFoundException - if the resource doesnt exist

MalformedAddressException

IOException

storeImage

public boolean storeImage(String address,
                          URL source,
                          boolean force)
                   throws MalformedAddressException,
                          ResourceNotFoundException,
                          IOException

Imports the image from the source & stores it at the given address.

Parameters:

address - the address of the resource

source - URL pointing to the image to be imported

force - if true, then the resource is overwritten if it already exists

Returns:

true if the resource did not exist and was created successfully, false otherwise

Throws:

MalformedAddressException

ResourceNotFoundException

IOException