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Contract for binary format providers that import/export documents from/to byte arrays.

Definition

Namespace:Telerik.Windows.Documents.Common.FormatProviders

Assembly:Telerik.Windows.Documents.Core.dll

Type Parameters:

T

Syntax:

C#
public interface IBinaryFormatProvider<T>

Derived Classes: BinaryFormatProviderBase<T>OcrFormatProviderPdfFormatProviderDocFormatProviderDocxFormatProviderPdfFormatProvider...

Methods

Exports the document to a byte array with an optional timeout.

C#
byte[] Export(T document, TimeSpan? timeout)
Parameters:documentT

The document.

timeoutTimeSpan?

The timeout after which the operation will be cancelled.

Returns:

byte[]

The result byte array.

Exceptions:

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The exception that is thrown when timeout is less than -1 or greater than Int32.MaxValue. Note that this upper bound is more restrictive than TimeSpan.MaxValue.

Imports a document from a byte array with an optional timeout and returns the parsed document.

C#
T Import(byte[] input, TimeSpan? timeout)
Parameters:inputbyte[]

The input.

timeoutTimeSpan?

The timeout after which the operation will be cancelled.

Returns:

T

The document.

Exceptions:

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The exception that is thrown when timeout is less than -1 or greater than Int32.MaxValue. Note that this upper bound is more restrictive than TimeSpan.MaxValue.