AccessibleHyperlink.java

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package javax.accessibility;

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

    /**
     * Constructor for subclasses to call.
     */
    protected AccessibleHyperlink() {}

    /**
     * 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 {@code 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 {@code 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 {@code true} if the action was performed; otherwise {@code 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".
     * <p>
     * Similarly, from this HTML: &lt;a HREF="#top"&gt;&lt;img src="top-hat.gif"
     * alt="top hat"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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: &lt;a
     * HREF="http://www.sun.com/access"&gt;Accessibility&lt;/a&gt; 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: &lt;a
     * href="http://www.sun.com/access"&gt;Accessibility&lt;/a&gt; this method
     * would return a {@code String} containing the text: "Accessibility".
     * <p>
     * Similarly, from this HTML: &lt;a HREF="#top"&gt;&lt;img src="top-hat.gif"
     * alt="top hat"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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();
}