org.apache.poi.poifs.property
Class PropertyTableBase

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.poi.poifs.property.PropertyTableBase

All Implemented Interfaces:

BATManaged

Direct Known Subclasses:

NPropertyTable, PropertyTable

public abstract class PropertyTableBase
extends java.lang.Object
implements BATManaged

This class embodies the Property Table for the filesystem, which looks up entries in the filesystem to their chain of blocks. This is the core support, there are implementations for the different block schemes as needed.

_properties

protected final java.util.List<Property> _properties

PropertyTableBase

public PropertyTableBase(HeaderBlock header_block)

PropertyTableBase

public PropertyTableBase(HeaderBlock header_block,
                         java.util.List<Property> properties)
                  throws java.io.IOException

Reading constructor (used when we've read in a file and we want to extract the property table from it). Populates the properties thoroughly

Parameters:

header_block - the first block to read from

properties - the list to populate

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if anything goes wrong (which should be a result of the input being NFG)

addProperty

public void addProperty(Property property)

Add a property to the list of properties we manage

Parameters:

property - the new Property to manage

removeProperty

public void removeProperty(Property property)

Remove a property from the list of properties we manage

Parameters:

property - the Property to be removed

getRoot

public RootProperty getRoot()

Get the root property

Returns:

the root property

isValidIndex

protected boolean isValidIndex(int index)

getStartBlock

public int getStartBlock()

Get the start block for the property table

Returns:

start block index

setStartBlock

public void setStartBlock(int index)

Set the start block for this instance

Specified by:

setStartBlock in interface BATManaged

Parameters:

index - index into the array of BigBlock instances making up the the filesystem