org.scijava.io
Interface IOPlugin<D>

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Prioritized>, Contextual, HandlerPlugin<String>, HasPluginInfo, Prioritized, RichPlugin, SciJavaPlugin, SingletonPlugin, Typed<String>, TypedPlugin<String>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractIOPlugin, ScriptIOPlugin, TextIOPlugin

public interface IOPlugin<D>
extends HandlerPlugin<String>

A plugin which extends an application's I/O capabilities.

I/O plugins discoverable at runtime must implement this interface and be annotated with @Plugin with attribute Plugin.type() = IOPlugin.class. While it possible to create an I/O plugin merely by implementing this interface, it is encouraged to instead extend AbstractIOPlugin, for convenience.

Author:

Curtis Rueden

See Also:

Plugin, IOService

Method Summary

Class<D>	getDataType() The type of data opened and/or saved by the plugin.
D	open(String source) Opens data from the given source.
void	save(D data, String destination) Saves the given data to the specified destination.
boolean	supportsOpen(String source) Checks whether the I/O plugin can open data from the given source.
boolean	supportsSave(Object data, String destination) Checks whether the I/O plugin can save the given data to the specified destination.
boolean	supportsSave(String destination) Checks whether the I/O plugin can save data to the given destination.

Methods inherited from interface org.scijava.Contextual

context, getContext, setContext

Methods inherited from interface org.scijava.Prioritized

getPriority, setPriority

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface org.scijava.plugin.HasPluginInfo

getInfo, setInfo

Methods inherited from interface org.scijava.Typed

getType, supports

Method Detail

getDataType

Class<D> getDataType()

The type of data opened and/or saved by the plugin.

supportsOpen

boolean supportsOpen(String source)

Checks whether the I/O plugin can open data from the given source.

supportsSave

boolean supportsSave(String destination)

Checks whether the I/O plugin can save data to the given destination.

supportsSave

boolean supportsSave(Object data,
                     String destination)

Checks whether the I/O plugin can save the given data to the specified destination.

open

D open(String source)
       throws IOException

Opens data from the given source.

Throws:

IOException

save

void save(D data,
          String destination)
          throws IOException

Saves the given data to the specified destination.

Throws:

IOException