# Package net.sf.okapi.common

Classes commonly used across the whole Okapi Framework.

See: Description

- Interface Summary
  Interface | Description
  --- | ---
  IContext | Common set of methods to provide context information.
  IEmbeddableParametersEditor | Common way to embed in a dialog box an editor to modify the parameters of a component.
  IHelp | Common way of calling the help topics, regardless of the underlying system (for example: eclipse application or simple Java application).
  IParameterDescriptor | Provides the different information common to all types of parameters used to configure steps, filters, and other okapi components.
  IParameters | Common way for a component to expose its parameters in a generic way.
  IParametersEditor | Common way to call in an editor to modify the parameters of a component.
  IParametersEditorMapper | Common set of methods to manage parameters editors and editor description providers.
  IParametersProvider | Common way to get access to the parameters of a given component.
  IPredefinedLocales | An extensive list of `LocaleId`s predefined for easy access.
  IResource | Common set of features all the types of resources associated with events have.
  ISegmenter | Common methods to provide segmentation facility to extracted content.
  ISkeleton | Represents a skeleton object.
  IUserPrompt | An interface for prompting the user for confirmation before continuing.
  IWaitDialog | Provides a generic way to open a dialog box and wait for a simple input from the user.

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  Base64 | Base64 Encoder/Decoder for all VM.
  BaseContext | Basic implementation of the `IContext` interface.
  BaseParameters | Base class for properties-like parameters that implement IParameters.
  BOMAwareInputStream | Helper class to detect and skip BOM in InputStream, including for UTF-8.
  BOMNewlineEncodingDetector | Helper class to detect byte-order-mark and other easily guessed of encodings, as well as the type of line-break used in a given input.
  ClassInfo | Stores a class name and its class-loader, for dynamic loading.
  ClassUtil | Collection of helper functions for working with classes.
  ConfigurationString | String-based representation of a configuration file.
  DefaultEntityResolver | Helper class that implement a default EntityResolver.
  DefaultFilenameFilter | Implements a default filename filter that supports filtering by wild-cards like ("myFile*.*").
  Event | Represents an event generated by a filter that implements IFilter.
  ExecutionContext | A class to encapsulate information about execution details such as the name of the application, the current UI parent, etc.
  FileUtil | Helper methods for manipulating files.
  HashCodeUtil | Collected methods which allow easy implementation of `hashCode`.
  HTMLCharacterEntities | Helper class to handle HTML character entities.
  IdGenerator | Provides a common way to generate sequential ID that are unique for a given root.
  LCIDUtil | Converts Microsoft's LCID to Okapi LocaleId back and forth.
  ListUtil | Helper methods to manipulate lists.
  LocaleFilter | Provides ways to work with sets of `LocaleId` objects and regular expressions.
  LocaleId | Holds the normalized identifier for a given language/locale.
  MemMappedCharSequence | Represents the text from the source document that is to be parsed.
  MimeTypeMapper | Provides definitions for common mime types and mappings from file extensions to mime type.
  Namespaces | Defines commonly used namespaces and default prefixes.
  NSContextManager | Helper class to manage XML namespaces.
  ParameterDescriptor | Default implementation of the `IParameterDescriptor` interface.
  ParametersDescription | Groups in a single objects all the parameter descriptors associated with a given object such as a step or a filter.
  ParametersEditorMapper | Common set of methods to manage parameters editors.
  ParametersString | String-based representation of a set of parameters.
  Range | Represents a range: a start and end position.
  ReaderInputStream | An InputStream backed by a Reader.
  RegexUtil | Collection of helper function for working with regular expressions.
  ResourceUtil |
  ReversedIterator<T> | Create a reversed iterator for a list compatible with foreach.
  StreamUtil |
  StringParameters | Parameters implementation based on `ParametersString`.
  StringUtil | Helper methods to manipulate strings.
  SynchronizedValue<T> |
  UnicodeBOMWriter | Writes Unicode text to an output stream.
  UserConfiguration | Simple class to store user-specific of an application in the user folder.
  UserPrompt | A CLI implementation of `IUserPrompt`.
  Util | Collection of various all-purpose helper functions.
  XMLWriter | Helper class to write XML documents.

- Enum Summary
  Enum | Description
  --- | ---
  BOMNewlineEncodingDetector.NewlineType | Defines type friendly newline types.
  EventType | The type of events used when working with the pipeline and its associated interfaces such as `IFilter` or `IFilterWriter`.
  LocaleFilter.FilterType | Type of locale filter.
  Util.SUPPORTED_OS | Enumeration of supported OSes

- Annotation Types Summary
  Annotation Type | Description
  --- | ---
  EditorFor | Annotation to use on classes implementing one of the interfaces allowing to edit parameters, to indicate which parameters class the editor supports or describes.
  ReferenceParameter | Java annotation for indicating a parameter that is a reference to an external resource.
  UsingParameters | Annotation to use on plug-in classes such as the implementations of IFilter or IPipelineStep to indicate what parameters class they use.

## Package net.sf.okapi.common Description

Classes commonly used across the whole Okapi Framework.

This package includes various classes and helper classes that are used by other packages of the framework.