IDocumentProviderExtension4 (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocumentProvider, FileDocumentProvider, ForwardingDocumentProvider, StorageDocumentProvider, TextFileDocumentProvider, TextFileDocumentProvider.NullProvider
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public interface IDocumentProviderExtension4
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Extension interface for IDocumentProvider. Extends a document provider with the ability to query the content type of a given element.
This interface may be implemented by clients.

Since:

3.1

See Also:

IDocumentProvider

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`IContentType`	`getContentType(Object element)`	Returns the content type of for the given element or `null` if none could be determined.

- Method Detail
  - getContentType
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IContentType getContentType(Object element)
                     throws CoreException
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    Returns the content type of for the given element or null if none could be determined. If the element's document can be saved, the returned content type is determined by the document's current content.
    
    Parameters:
    
    element - the element
    
    Returns:
    
    the content type or null
    
    Throws:
    
    CoreException - if reading or accessing the underlying store fails