edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove

Class ObjectIdentifier

java.lang.Object

edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.ObjectIdentifier

public class ObjectIdentifier
extends Object

Module for identification of a document. "Identification" means determining, by querying modules successively, what the format of a document is. The Bytestream module is always queried last, so a document will by identified as a Bytestream if all else fails.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ObjectIdentifier(List moduleList) CLASS CONSTRUCTOR.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	identify(File file, RepInfo info, String parm, boolean verbose, boolean shortCheck) Perform identification on a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ObjectIdentifier

public ObjectIdentifier(List moduleList)

CLASS CONSTRUCTOR.

Method Detail

identify

public void identify(File file,
                     RepInfo info,
                     String parm,
                     boolean verbose,
                     boolean shortCheck)
              throws IOException

Perform identification on a file. The file is parsed by each of the modules in the module list until one declares that the file is well-formed. It is assumed that there is a module in the list (normally Bytestream at the end) which will always consider a file well-formed.

Throws:

IOException