Hi all,
I just commited the first shot of HPSF's writing functionality to the HEAD of POI's
CVS repository. Now you can not only read a document's properties but you can also
write them.
HPSF comes with three new classes: MutablePropertySet, MutableSection and
MutableProperty extend their respective superclasses PropertySet, Section and Property
with writing functionalities.
The drawback is that the current writing functionalities are very low-level. You have
to deal with property IDs and variant types to write properties. There are no
convenient classes and no convenient methods for dealing with summary information and
document summary information streams yet. The API documentation tells you more about
the details. You should also consider studying the HPSF testcases to see how to write
property set streams.
The traditional HPSF classes have also undergone a few incompatible changes:
- When HPSF encounters a property type that it does not (yet) support, it writes a
warning message to System.err. A warning is written only once for each unsupported
type. You can turn off the warnings completely by calling
org.apache.poi.hpsf.VariantSupport.setLogUnsupportedTypes(false). Unsupported type can
still be read and written as byte arrays without any interpretation of the data.
- The Property methods getID() returns a long instead of an int now. The constructor
Property(long, byte[], long, int, int) takes a long parameter where it formerly
expected an int.
- The PropertySet methods getOSVersion() and getSectionCount() return a long instead
of an int now.
Have fun!
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824
D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423
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