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<head>
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<title>HPSF</title>
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</head>
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<head>
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<body>
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<div>
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Horrible Property Set Format API is a way to read things like Document Summary information from
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OLE 2 Compound Document files.
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<p>Processes streams in the Horrible Property Set Format (HPSF) in POI
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filesystems. Microsoft Office documents, i.e. POI filesystems, usually
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contain meta data like author, title, last editing date etc. These items
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are called <strong>properties</strong> and stored in
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<strong>property set streams</strong> along with the document itself. These
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streams are commonly named <tt>\005SummaryInformation</tt> and
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<tt>\005DocumentSummaryInformation</tt>. However, a POI filesystem may
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contain further property sets of other names or types.</p>
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<h2>Related Documentation</h2>
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<p>In order to extract the properties from a POI filesystem, a property set
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stream's contents must be parsed into a {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} instance. Its subclasses {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation} and {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation} deal with the well-known
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property set streams <tt>\005SummaryInformation</tt> and
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<tt>\005DocumentSummaryInformation</tt>. (However, the streams' names are
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irrelevant. What counts is the property set's first section's format ID -
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see below.)</p>
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For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi">Jakarta POI Project</a>
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</ul>
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<p>The factory method {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySetFactory#create}
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creates a {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} instance. This method
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always returns the <strong>most specific property set</strong>: If it
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identifies the stream data as a Summary Information or as a Document
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Summary Information it returns an instance of the corresponding class, else
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the general {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}.</p>
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<p>A {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} contains a list of {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}s which can be retrieved with {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet#getSections}. Each {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section} contains a {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property} array which can be retrieved with {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getProperties}. Since the vast majority of
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{@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}s contains only a single {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}, the convenience method {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet#getProperties} returns the properties of a
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{@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet}'s {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section} (throwing a {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.NoSingleSectionException} if the {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.PropertySet} contains more (or less) than exactly one
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{@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section}).</p>
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<p>Each {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property} has an <strong>ID</strong>, a
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<strong>type</strong>, and a <strong>value</strong> which can be retrieved
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with {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getID}, {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getType}, and {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property#getValue}, respectively. The value's class
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depends on the property's type. <!-- FIXME: --> The current implementation
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does not yet support all property types and restricts the values' classes
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to {@link java.lang.String}, {@link java.lang.Integer} and {@link
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java.util.Date}. A value of a yet unknown type is returned as a byte array
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containing the value's origin bytes from the property set stream.</p>
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<p>To retrieve the value of a specific {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Property},
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use {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getProperty} or {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.Section#getPropertyIntValue}.</p>
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<p>The {@link org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation} and {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation} classes provide convenience
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methods for retrieving well-known properties. For example, an application
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that wants to retrieve a document's title string just calls {@link
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org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation#getTitle} instead of going through
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the hassle of first finding out what the title's property ID is and then
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using this ID to get the property's value.</p>
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<div>
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<h2>To Do</h2>
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<p>The following is still left to be implemented:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Property dictionaries</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Writing property sets</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Codepage support</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Property type Unicode string</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Further property types</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<p>
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@author Rainer Klute (klute@rainer-klute.de)
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@version $Id$
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@since 2002-02-09
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</p>
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</div>
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</body>
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<!-- Put @see and @since tags down here. -->
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@see org.apache.poi.poifs
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@see org.apache.poi.hssf
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