AccessibleHyperlink.java

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package javax.accessibility;


import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;


/**
 * Encapsulation of a link, or set of links (e.g. client side imagemap)
 * in a Hypertext document
 *
 * @see Accessible
 * @see Accessible#getAccessibleContext
 * @see AccessibleContext
 * @see AccessibleText
 * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleText
 *
 * @author      Peter Korn
 */
public abstract class AccessibleHyperlink implements AccessibleAction {

        /**
         * Since the document a link is associated with may have
         * changed, this method returns whether or not this Link is still valid
         * (with respect to the document it references).
         *
         * @return a flag indicating whether this link is still valid with
         *         respect to the AccessibleHypertext it belongs to
         */
        public abstract boolean isValid();

        /**
         * Returns the number of accessible actions available in this Link
         * If there are more than one, the first one is NOT considered the
         * "default" action of this LINK object (e.g. in an HTML imagemap).
         * In general, links will have only one AccessibleAction in them.
         *
         * @return the zero-based number of Actions in this object
         */
        public abstract int getAccessibleActionCount();

        /**
         * Performs the specified Action on the object
         *
         * @param i zero-based index of actions
         * @return true if the action was performed; otherwise false.
         * @see #getAccessibleActionCount
         */
        public abstract boolean doAccessibleAction(int i);

        /**
         * Returns a String description of this particular
         * link action.  This should be a text string
         * associated with anchoring text, this should be the
         * anchor text.  E.g. from HTML:
         *   <a HREF="http://www.sun.com/access">Accessibility</a>
         * this method would return "Accessibility".
         *
         * Similarly, from this HTML:
         *   <a HREF="#top"><img src="top-hat.gif" alt="top hat"></a>
         * this method would return "top hat"
         *
         * @param i zero-based index of the actions
         * @return a String description of the action
         * @see #getAccessibleActionCount
         */
        public abstract String getAccessibleActionDescription(int i);

        /**
         * Returns an object that represents the link action,
         * as appropriate for that link.  E.g. from HTML:
         *   <a HREF="http://www.sun.com/access">Accessibility</a>
         * this method would return a
         * java.net.URL("http://www.sun.com/access.html");
         *
         * @param i zero-based index of the actions
         * @return an Object representing the hypertext link itself
         * @see #getAccessibleActionCount
         */
        public abstract Object getAccessibleActionObject(int i);

        /**
         * Returns an object that represents the link anchor,
         * as appropriate for that link.  E.g. from HTML:
         *   <a href="http://www.sun.com/access">Accessibility</a>
         * this method would return a String containing the text:
         * "Accessibility".
         *
         * Similarly, from this HTML:
         *   <a HREF="#top"><img src="top-hat.gif" alt="top hat"></a>
         * this might return the object ImageIcon("top-hat.gif", "top hat");
         *
         * @param i zero-based index of the actions
         * @return an Object representing the hypertext anchor
         * @see #getAccessibleActionCount
         */
        public abstract Object getAccessibleActionAnchor(int i);

        /**
         * Gets the index with the hypertext document at which this
         * link begins
         *
         * @return index of start of link
         */
        public abstract int getStartIndex();

        /**
         * Gets the index with the hypertext document at which this
         * link ends
         *
         * @return index of end of link
         */
        public abstract int getEndIndex();
}