Package org.alfresco.filesys.repo

Class CIFSContentComparator

java.lang.Object

org.alfresco.filesys.repo.CIFSContentComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContentComparator

public class CIFSContentComparator
extends Object
implements ContentComparator

Compares content for to see if content is equal.

Most mimetypes can simply be binary compared but for some mimetypes there may be trivial differences so a binary compare is not sufficient.

In particular MS Project and MS Excel write to header fields without changing content.

Author:

mrogers

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CIFSContentComparator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	init()
boolean	isContentEqual(ContentReader existingContent, File newFile)	Are the two content items equal?

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

CIFSContentComparator

public CIFSContentComparator()

Method Details

init

public void init()

isContentEqual

public boolean isContentEqual(ContentReader existingContent,
 File newFile)

Description copied from interface: ContentComparator

Are the two content items equal?

For most cases a simple binary comparison is sufficient but some mimetypes trivial changes need to be discarded.

Specified by:

isContentEqual in interface ContentComparator

newFile - file

Returns:

true content is equal, false content is different.