MetadataExtracter (Alfresco 5.2.4 Public Java API)

Method Summary
Map<QName,Serializable>	extract(ContentReader reader, Map<QName,Serializable> destination) Extracts the metadata values from the content provided by the reader and source mimetype to the supplied map.
Map<QName,Serializable>	extract(ContentReader reader, MetadataExtracter.OverwritePolicy overwritePolicy, Map<QName,Serializable> destination) Extracts the metadata values from the content provided by the reader and source mimetype to the supplied map.
Map<QName,Serializable>	extract(ContentReader reader, MetadataExtracter.OverwritePolicy overwritePolicy, Map<QName,Serializable> destination, Map<String,Set<QName>> mapping) Extracts the metadata from the content provided by the reader and source mimetype to the supplied map.
boolean	isSupported(String mimetype) Determines if the extracter works against the given mimetype.

Method Detail

isSupported

boolean isSupported(String mimetype)

Determines if the extracter works against the given mimetype.

Parameters:

mimetype - the document mimetype

Returns:

Returns true if the mimetype is supported, otherwise false.

extract

Map<QName,Serializable> extract(ContentReader reader,
Map<QName,Serializable> destination)

Extracts the metadata values from the content provided by the reader and source mimetype to the supplied map. The internal mapping and overwrite policy between document metadata and system metadata will be used.

The extraction viability can be determined by an up front call to isSupported(String).

The source mimetype must be available on the ContentAccessor.getMimetype() method of the reader.

Parameters:

reader - the source of the content

destination - the map of properties to populate (essentially a return value)

Returns:

Returns a map of all properties on the destination map that were added or modified. If the return map is empty, then no properties were modified.

Throws:

ContentIOException - if a detectable error occurs