Package uk.ac.starlink.util

Miscellaneous utility classes.

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Interface Summary

Destination	Defines an object which can return an output stream, and hence represents the potential destination of a stream of data.
NodeDescendants.Visitor	The Visitor processes a single node in a tree.
Wrapper	Mixin interface which indicates an object built on top of a base object.
XMLEncodeDecode	Interface for objects that can encode and decode their internal configuration within the content of an Element.

Class Summary

AsciiFileParser	Generalised parser for data stored as a table in a plain text file.
AuxClassLoader	This class provides a ClassLoader which looks on a given class path.
Base64InputStream	Reads in base-64 encoded input and spits out the raw binary decoding.
Base64OutputStream	An output stream filter that takes arbitrary bytes and outputs their base64 encoding.
ByteArrayDataSource	DataSource implementation that uses an internal byte buffer to store the data.
ByteList	Extendable array of bytes.
CgiQuery	Utility class for constructing CGI query strings.
Compression	Characterises the compression status of a stream, and provides methods for decompressing it.
ContentCoding	Defines a policy for Content Codings used in HTTP connections.
ContentType	Represents a Content Type (MIME type) string.
CountInputStream	Filter input stream that counts the number of bytes read.
CountMap<T>	Keeps track of the number of times an item of type T has been added.
CustomURLStreamHandlerFactory	Customisable implementation of URLStreamHandlerFactory.
DataSource	Represents a stream-like source of data.
DOMUtils	Provides convenience methods for handling DOMs.
DoubleList	Extendable array of doubles.
FileDataSource	A DataSource implementation based on a File.
FloatList	Extendable array of floats.
GenericNioBuffer	Convenience class which wraps one of the NIO <Type>Buffer classes to provide generic functionality.
HeadBufferInputStream	Filter input stream that records the first few bytes read from its base stream for later examination.
IconUtils	Utility functions related to Icons.
IntList	Extendable array of integers.
IOUtils	Provides static methods which do miscellaneous input/output tasks.
LineReader	Class containing methods for reading strings from the user (standard input).
Loader	Provides utilities associated with loading resources.
LongList	Extendable array of longs..
MapGroup<K,V>	Represents an ordered list of Maps containing related data.
MultiplexInvocationHandler<T>	Used to generate a proxy instance which implements a given interface and delegates its calls to each of a given list of target implementations.
NodeDescendants	Represents the set of Nodes in the tree rooted at a particular DOM Node.
ObjectFactory<T>	Manages dynamic creation of objects from a known set of classes.
PhysicalConstants	Class of physical and astronomical constants.
PipeReaderThread	Thread which reads data from a pipe.
PrimitiveList	Provides an extendable list of primitive values.
PrimitiveXMLEncodeDecode	An abstract base-class for objects that want to encode and decode themselves from an XML stream.
ProcessDataSource	DataSource that uses the standard output of a System process.
PropertyAuthenticator	Authenticator implementation which uses system properties to set fixed username and passwords for HTTP Basic Authentication.
ProxySetup	A singleton class for controlling the configuration of the web proxy system properties.
ResourceDataSource	A DataSource which represents a resource available from the class loader's ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String) method.
ShortList	Extendable array of shorts.
SourceReader	Convenience class to manipulate XML Sources.
StarEntityResolver	Provides specialised XML entity resolution.
SuperJar	Utility to generate a single jar file containing all the resources referenced by a given jar file.
TemporaryFileDataSource	A DataSource which stores its data in a temporary file.
UncompressInputStream	This class decompresses an input stream containing data compressed with the unix "compress" utility (LZC, a LZW variant).
URLDataSource	A DataSource implementation based on a URL.
URLUtils	Provides convenience methods for resolving URLs.
ValueWatcher	Looks out for an unused value in a sequence of submitted numbers.
WrapUtils	Utilities relating to the Wrapper class.
XmlWriter	Provides methods for writing XML output to a stream.

Exception Summary

LoadException

Exception thrown if an object creation fails for reasonable reasons.

Package uk.ac.starlink.util Description

Miscellaneous utility classes.