uk.ac.starlink.table.formats

Class TstTableWriter

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedStreamStarTableWriter

uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.TstTableWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Documented, DocumentedIOHandler, StarTableWriter

public class TstTableWriter
extends DocumentedStreamStarTableWriter

Output handler for Tab-Separated Table format. This is used by GAIA/SkyCat amongst other software. Documentation of the format can be found in Starlink System Note 75 (SSN/75).

Since:

27 Jul 2006

Author:

Mark Taylor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TstTableWriter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	docIncludesExample() Indicates whether the serialization of some (short) example table should be added to the user documentation for this handler.
String	getFormatName() Returns "TST".
String	getMimeType() Returns "text/plain".
String	getXmlDescription() Returns user-directed documentation in XML format.
void	writeStarTable(StarTable st, OutputStream out) Writes a StarTable object to a given output stream.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedStreamStarTableWriter

getExtensions, looksLikeFile, writeStarTable

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedIOHandler

matchesExtension, readText, toLink

Constructor Detail

TstTableWriter

public TstTableWriter()

Method Detail

getFormatName

public String getFormatName()

Returns "TST".

Returns:

format name

getMimeType

public String getMimeType()

Returns "text/plain".

Returns:

MIME type

docIncludesExample

public boolean docIncludesExample()

Description copied from interface: DocumentedIOHandler

Indicates whether the serialization of some (short) example table should be added to the user documentation for this handler. Binary formats, or instances for which the Documented.getXmlDescription() method already includes some example output, should return false.

Returns:

true if the user documentation would benefit from the addition of an example serialization

getXmlDescription

public String getXmlDescription()

Description copied from interface: Documented

Returns user-directed documentation in XML format.

The output should be a sequence of one or more <P> elements, using XHTML-like XML. Since rendering may be done in a number of contexts however, use of the full range of XHTML elements is discouraged. Where possible, the content should stick to simple markup such as the elements P, A, UL, OL, LI, DL, DT, DD EM, STRONG, I, B, CODE, TT, PRE.

Returns:

XML description of this object

writeStarTable

public void writeStarTable(StarTable st,
                           OutputStream out)
                    throws IOException

Description copied from interface: StarTableWriter

Writes a StarTable object to a given output stream. The implementation can assume that out is suitable for direct writing (for instance it should not normally wrap it in a BufferedOutputStream), and should not close it at the end of the call.

Not all table writers are capable of writing to a stream; an implementation may throw a TableFormatException to indicate that it cannot do so.

Parameters:

st - the table to write

out - the output stream to which startab should be written

Throws:

TableFormatException - if this table cannot be written to a stream

IOException - if there is some I/O error