Package 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	Description
ObjectIdentifier(List<Module> moduleList)	CLASS CONSTRUCTOR.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	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 Details

ObjectIdentifier

public ObjectIdentifier(List<Module> moduleList)

CLASS CONSTRUCTOR.

Method Details

identify

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

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.