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Interface IImporter

All Known Implementing Classes:

XMLImporter

public interface IImporter

Interface for project and diagram importers, which can load the project (a list of diagrams) or a single diagram even between different instances and versions of the system.

Author:

AGH CAST Team

See Also:

IExporter

Method Summary

IDiagram	importDiagram(File file) Imports a diagram from specified file.
IDiagramSettings	importDiagramSettings(File file) Imports diagram settings from specified file.
IProjectContainer	importProject(File file) Imports project (list of IDiagram objects) from specified file.

Method Detail

importProject

IProjectContainer importProject(File file)
                                throws IOException

Imports project (list of IDiagram objects) from specified file.

Parameters:

file - file the project is read from

Returns:

IProjectContainer - embedded project

Throws:

IOException

importDiagramSettings

IDiagramSettings importDiagramSettings(File file)
                                       throws IOException

Imports diagram settings from specified file. Must not read the whole diagram from file for performance reasons.

Parameters:

file - file to read diagram settings from

Returns:

diagram settings read from the file

Throws:

IOException

importDiagram

IDiagram importDiagram(File file)
                       throws IOException

Imports a diagram from specified file.

Parameters:

file - file to read diagram from

Returns:

diagram read from the file

Throws:

IOException