org.eclipse.compare
Class HistoryItem

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.eclipse.compare.HistoryItem

All Implemented Interfaces:

IModificationDate, IStreamContentAccessor, ITypedElement

public class HistoryItem

extends Object

implements IStreamContentAccessor, ITypedElement, IModificationDate

A combination IFileState and ITypedElement that can be used as an input to a compare viewer or other places where an IStreamContentAccessor is needed.

Clients may instantiate this class; it is not intended to be subclassed.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.eclipse.compare.ITypedElement

FOLDER_TYPE, TEXT_TYPE, UNKNOWN_TYPE

Constructor Summary

HistoryItem(ITypedElement base, IFileState fileState)
Creates a HistoryItem object which combines the given IFileState and ITypedElement into an object which is suitable as input for a compare viewer or ReplaceWithEditionDialog.

Method Summary

InputStream	getContents() Returns an open InputStream for this object which can be used to retrieve the object's content.
Image	getImage() Returns an image for this object.
long	getModificationDate() Returns the modification time of this object.
String	getName() Returns the name of this object.
String	getType() Returns the type of this object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HistoryItem

public HistoryItem(ITypedElement base,
                   IFileState fileState)

Creates a HistoryItem object which combines the given IFileState and ITypedElement into an object which is suitable as input for a compare viewer or ReplaceWithEditionDialog.

Parameters:

base - the implementation of the ITypedElement interface delegates to this base ITypedElement

fileState - the IFileState from which the streamable contents and the modification time is derived from

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Description copied from interface: ITypedElement

Returns the name of this object. The name is used when displaying this object in the UI.

Specified by:

getName in interface ITypedElement

Returns:

the name of this object

getImage

public Image getImage()

Description copied from interface: ITypedElement

Returns an image for this object. This image is used when displaying this object in the UI.

Specified by:

getImage in interface ITypedElement

Returns:

the image of this object or null if this type of input has no image

getType

public String getType()

Description copied from interface: ITypedElement

Returns the type of this object. For objects with a file name this is typically the file extension. For folders its the constant FOLDER_TYPE. The type is used for determining a suitable viewer for this object.

Specified by:

getType in interface ITypedElement

Returns:

the type of this object

getModificationDate

public long getModificationDate()

Description copied from interface: IModificationDate

Returns the modification time of this object.

Note that this value should only be used to give the user a general idea of how old the object is.

Specified by:

getModificationDate in interface IModificationDate

Returns:

the time of last modification, in milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT

getContents

public InputStream getContents()
                        throws CoreException

Description copied from interface: IStreamContentAccessor

Returns an open InputStream for this object which can be used to retrieve the object's content. The client is responsible for closing the stream when finished. Returns null if this object has no streamable contents.

Specified by:

getContents in interface IStreamContentAccessor

Returns:

an input stream containing the contents of this object

Throws:

CoreException - if the contents of this object could not be accessed