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 * Copyright (c) 20007 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.swt.dnd;

/**
 * The class <code>URLTransfer</code> provides a platform specific mechanism 
 * for converting text in URL format represented as a java <code>String</code> 
 * to a platform specific representation of the data and vice versa. The string
 * must contain a fully specified url.
 * 
 * <p>An example of a java <code>String</code> containing a URL is shown below:</p>
 * 
 * <code><pre>
 *     String url = "http://www.eclipse.org";
 * </code></pre>
 *
 * @see Transfer
 * @since 3.4
 */
public class URLTransfer extends ByteArrayTransfer {

private URLTransfer() {}

/**
 * Returns the singleton instance of the URLTransfer class.
 *
 * @return the singleton instance of the URLTransfer class
 */
public static URLTransfer getInstance () {
	return null;
}

/**
 * This implementation of <code>javaToNative</code> converts a URL
 * represented by a java <code>String</code> to a platform specific representation.
 * 
 * @param object a java <code>String</code> containing a URL
 * @param transferData an empty <code>TransferData</code> object that will
 *  	be filled in on return with the platform specific format of the data
 * 
 * @see Transfer#nativeToJava
 */
public void javaToNative (Object object, TransferData transferData){
}

/**
 * This implementation of <code>nativeToJava</code> converts a platform 
 * specific representation of a URL to a java <code>String</code>.
 * 
 * @param transferData the platform specific representation of the data to be converted
 * @return a java <code>String</code> containing a URL if the conversion was successful;
 * 		otherwise null
 * 
 * @see Transfer#javaToNative
 */
public Object nativeToJava(TransferData transferData){
	return null;
}

protected int[] getTypeIds(){
	return null;
}

protected String[] getTypeNames(){
	return null; 
}
}