com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.metadata.xmp

Class XMPScanner

java.lang.Object

com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.metadata.xmp.XMPScanner

public final class XMPScanner
extends Object

XMPScanner

Version:

$Id: XMPScanner.java,v 1.0 Nov 11, 2009 4:49:00 PM haraldk Exp$

Author:

Harald Kuhr, last modified by $Author: haraldk$

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
XMPScanner()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(String[] pArgs)
static Reader	scanForXMPPacket(Object pInput) Scans the given input for an XML metadata packet.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMPScanner

public XMPScanner()

Method Detail

scanForXMPPacket

public static Reader scanForXMPPacket(Object pInput)
                               throws IOException

Scans the given input for an XML metadata packet. The scanning process involves reading every byte in the file, while searching for an XMP packet. This process is very inefficient, compared to reading a known file format.

NOTE: The XMP Specification says this method of reading an XMP packet should be considered a last resort.
This is because files may contain multiple XMP packets, some which may be related to embedded resources, some which may be obsolete (or even incomplete).

Parameters:

pInput - the input to scan. The input may be an ImageInputStream or any object that can be passed to ImageIO.createImageInputStream(Object). Typically this may be a File, InputStream or RandomAccessFile.

Returns:

a character Reader

Throws:

UnsupportedCharsetException - if the encoding specified within the BOM is not supported by the JRE.

IOException - if an I/O exception occurs reading from pInput.

See Also:

ImageIO.createImageInputStream(Object)

main

public static void main(String[] pArgs)
                 throws IOException

Throws:

IOException