/*
VisAD system for interactive analysis and visualization of numerical
data. Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 Bill Hibbard, Curtis Rueden, Tom
Rink, Dave Glowacki, Steve Emmerson, Tom Whittaker, Don Murray, and
Tommy Jasmin.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307, USA
*/
package visad.data;
/**
FormFileInformer is the VisAD interface for checking system- and
file-specific data from a file Form.<P>
*/
public interface FormFileInformer
{
/**
* Check to see if the file name might be right for this form.
* @param name name of the file
* @return true if the name is right for this type of form
*/
boolean isThisType(String name);
/**
* Check to see if the block contains the magic number for this form.
* @param block block of bytes from file
* @return true if the magic number is right
*/
boolean isThisType(byte[] block);
/**
* Get default suffixes for files/URLs handeled by this form.
* @return array of suffixes
*/
String[] getDefaultSuffixes();
}