Import (extension point)

Identifier

ru.biosoft.access.import

Plugin

ru.biosoft.access

Since

0.9.0

Registry

DataElementImporterRegistry

Description

Using this extension point you can provide an importer to import user-supplied file as BioUML data element. Each importer must be able to check the provided file and return an acceptance level. Importers with ACCEPT_UNSUPPORTED level are excluded from the importers list for given file. Other importers are sorted by acceptance level. Importer with highest acceptance level is considered to be default importer for this file. See DataElementImporter interface for more details.

• 

  Import element dialog in BioUML workbench.

• 

  Import element dialog in BioUML web edition.

Configuration markup

<!ELEMENT import>
<!ATTLIST import
   format             CDATA    #REQUIRED
   importer           CDATA    #REQUIRED
   description        CDATA
>

format

Human-readable file format name

importer

Fully-qualified name of importer class (must implement DataElementImporter interface).

description

Either text importer description or plugin-relative path to HTML file describing the importer in details.

Example

<extension id="Import zip-archive" point="ru.biosoft.access.import"> 
  <import
    format="ZIP-archive (*.zip)"
    importer="ru.biosoft.access.ZipFileImporter"
    description="ru/biosoft/access/resources/ZIPFormat.html"
  />
</extension> 

This extension registers a ZIP files importer implemented in the ZipFileImporter class.

See also

• List of known importers