DataFlavor

Name

Description

The DataFlavor class encapsulates information about data formats.

Class Definition

public class java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor extends java.lang.Object {
 // Class Variables public static DataFlavor plainTextFlavor;
public static DataFlavor stringFlavor; // Constructors public DataFlavor (Class representationClass, String humanPresentableName);
public DataFlavor (String MIMEType, String humanPresentableName); // Instance Methods public boolean equals (DataFlavor dataFlavor);
public String getHumanPresentableName();
public String getMIMEType();
public Class getRepresentationClass();
public boolean isMIMETypeEqual (String MIMEType);
public final boolean isMIMETypeEqual (DataFlavor dataFlavor);
public void setHumanPresentableName (String humanPresentableName); // Protected Instance Methods protected String normalizeMIMEType (String MIMEType); protected String normalizeMIMETypeParameter (String parameterName, String parameterValue);
}

Class Variables

plainTextFlavor

public static DataFlavor plainTextFlavor

A preset DataFlavor object representing plain text.

stringFlavor

public static DataFlavor stringFlavor

A preset DataFlavor object representing a Java String.

Constructors

DataFlavor

public DataFlavor (Class representationClass, String humanPresentableName)

• Parameters
• • representationClass
  • The Java class that represents data in this flavor.
  • humanPresentableName
  • A name for this flavor that humans will recognize.
• Description
• Constructs a DataFlavor object with the given characteristics. The MIME type for this DataFlavor is application/x-java-serialized-object <Java ClassName>.[1]

  [1] The type name changed to x-java-serialized-object in the 1.1.1 release.

public DataFlavor (String MIMEType, String humanPresentableName)

• Parameters
• • MIMEType
  • The MIME type string this DataFlavor represents.
  • humanPresentableName
  • A name for this flavor that humans will recognize.
• Description
• Constructs a DataFlavor object with the given characteristics. The representation class used for this DataFlavor is java.io.InputStream.

Instance Methods

equals

public boolean equals (DataFlavor dataFlavor)

• Parameters
• • dataFlavor
  • The flavor to compare.
• Returns
• true if dataFlavor is equivalent to this DataFlavor, false otherwise.
• Description
• Compares two different DataFlavor instances for equivalence.

getHumanPresentableName

public String getHumanPresentableName()

• Returns
• The name of this flavor.

getMIMEType

public String getMIMEType()

• Returns
• The MIME type string for this flavor.

getRepresentationClass

public Class getRepresentationClass()

• Returns
• The Java class that will be used to represent data in this flavor.

isMIMETypeEqual

public boolean isMIMETypeEqual (String MIMEType)

• Parameters
• • MIMEType
  • The type to compare.
• Returns
• true if the given MIME type is the same as this DataFlavor's MIME type; false otherwise.
• Description
• Compares two different DataFlavor MIME types for equivalence.

public final boolean isMIMETypeEqual (DataFlavor dataFlavor)

• Parameters
• • dataFlavor
  • The flavor to compare.
• Returns
• true if DataFlavor's MIME type is the same as this DataFlavor's MIME type; false otherwise.
• Description
• Compares two different DataFlavor MIME types for equivalence.

setHumanPresentableName

public void setHumanPresentableName (String humanPresentableName)

• Parameters
• • humanPresentableName
  • A name for this flavor that humans will recognize.
• Description
• Changes the name of the DataFlavor.

Protected Instance Methods

normalizeMIMEType

protected String normalizeMIMEType (String MIMEType)

• Parameters
• • MIMEType
  • The MIME type string to normalize.
• Returns
• Normalized MIME type string.
• Description
• This method is called for each MIME type string. Subclasses can override this method to add default parameter/value pairs to MIME strings.

normalizeMIMETypeParameter

protected String normalizeMIMETypeParameter (String parameterName, String parameterValue)

• Parameters
• • parameterName
  • The MIME type parameter to normalize.
  • parameterValue
  • The corresponding value.
• Returns
• Normalized MIME type parameter string.
• Description
• This method is called for each MIME type parameter string. Subclasses can override this method to handle special parameters, such as those that are case-insensitive.

See Also

Class, String