Source for java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider

   1: /* CharsetProvider.java -- charset service provider interface
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  37: 
  38: package java.nio.charset.spi;
  39: 
  40: import java.nio.charset.Charset;
  41: import java.util.Iterator;
  42: 
  43: 
  44: /**
  45:  * This class allows an implementor to provide additional character sets. The
  46:  * subclass must have a nullary constructor, and be attached to charset
  47:  * implementation classes. These extensions are loaded via the context class
  48:  * loader. To provide the charset extension, all files named
  49:  * <code>META-INF/services/java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider</code> are
  50:  * read from the classpath. Each one should be a UTF-8 encoded list of
  51:  * fully-qualified names of concrete subclasses of this class; whitespace is
  52:  * ignored, and '#' starts comments. Duplicates are ignored. The
  53:  * implementations must be accessible to the classloader that requests them.
  54:  *
  55:  * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
  56:  * @see Charset
  57:  * @since 1.4
  58:  * @status updated to 1.4
  59:  */
  60: public abstract class CharsetProvider
  61: {
  62:   /**
  63:    * Initialize a new charset provider. This performs a security check on
  64:    * RuntimePermission("charsetProvider").
  65:    *
  66:    * @throws SecurityException if building a new set is not allowed
  67:    */
  68:   protected CharsetProvider()
  69:   {
  70:     SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
  71:     if (s != null)
  72:       s.checkPermission(new RuntimePermission("charsetProvider"));
  73:   }
  74: 
  75:   /**
  76:    * Returns an iterator over the charsets defined by this provider.
  77:    *
  78:    * @return the iterator
  79:    * @see Charset#availableCharsets()
  80:    */
  81:   public abstract Iterator charsets();
  82: 
  83:   /**
  84:    * Returns the named charset, by canonical name or alias.
  85:    *
  86:    * @param name the name of the character
  87:    *
  88:    * @return the charset, or null if not supported
  89:    */
  90:   public abstract Charset charsetForName(String name);
  91: } // class CharsetProvider