net.sf.jabref.imports

Class DatabaseFileLookup

java.lang.Object

net.sf.jabref.imports.DatabaseFileLookup

public class DatabaseFileLookup
extends java.lang.Object

Search class for files.

This class provides some functionality to search in a BibtexDatabase for files.

Version:

09.11.2008 | 21:21:41

Author:

Nosh&Dan

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DatabaseFileLookup(BibtexDatabase aDatabase) Creates an instance by passing a BibtexDatabase which will be used for the searches.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	lookupDatabase(java.io.File aFile) Returns whether the File aFile is present in the database as an attached File to an BibtexEntry.
boolean	lookupEntry(java.io.File aFile, BibtexEntry anEntry) Searches the specified BibtexEntry anEntry for the appearance of the specified File aFile.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DatabaseFileLookup

public DatabaseFileLookup(BibtexDatabase aDatabase)

Creates an instance by passing a BibtexDatabase which will be used for the searches.

Parameters:

aDatabase - A BibtexDatabase.

Method Detail

lookupDatabase

public boolean lookupDatabase(java.io.File aFile)

Returns whether the File aFile is present in the database as an attached File to an BibtexEntry.

To do this, the field specified by the key file will be searched for the provided file for every BibtexEntry in the database.

For the matching, the absolute file paths will be used.

Parameters:

file - A File Object.

Returns:

true, if the file Object is stored in at least one entry in the database, otherwise false.

lookupEntry

public boolean lookupEntry(java.io.File aFile,
                           BibtexEntry anEntry)

Searches the specified BibtexEntry anEntry for the appearance of the specified File aFile.

Therefore the file-field of the bibtex-entry will be searched for the absolute filepath of the searched file.

Parameters:

aFile - A file that is searched in an bibtex-entry.

anEntry - A bibtex-entry, in which the file is searched.

Returns:

true, if the bibtex entry stores the file in its file-field, otherwise false.