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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:

kpietak

See Also:

IExporter

Method Summary

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

Method Detail

importProject

IProjectContainer importProject(java.io.File file)
                                throws java.io.IOException

Imports project (list of IDiagram objects) from specified file

Parameters:

file - - file a project is read from

Returns:

IProjectContainer - embed project

Throws:

java.io.IOException

importDiagramSettings

IDiagramSettings importDiagramSettings(java.io.File file)
                                       throws java.io.IOException

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

Parameters:

file -

Returns:

Throws:

java.io.IOException

importDiagram

IDiagram importDiagram(java.io.File file)
                       throws java.io.IOException

Imports a diagram from specified file

Parameters:

file -

Returns:

Throws:

java.io.IOException