int typeID = LittleEndian.readUShort(value);
int id = LittleEndian.readUShort(value);
long flags = LittleEndian.readUInt(value);
// Turn the Type and ID into helper objects
MAPIType type = Types.getById(typeID);
MAPIProperty prop = MAPIProperty.get(id);
// Wrap properties we don't know about as custom ones
if (prop == MAPIProperty.UNKNOWN) {
prop = MAPIProperty.createCustom(id, type, "Unknown " + id);
}
if (type == null) {
logger.log(POILogger.WARN, "Invalid type found, expected ", prop.usualType,
" but got ", typeID, " for property ", prop);
going = false;
break;
}
// Sanity check the property's type against the value's type
if (prop.usualType != type) {
// Is it an allowed substitution?
if (type == Types.ASCII_STRING && prop.usualType == Types.UNICODE_STRING ||
type == Types.UNICODE_STRING && prop.usualType == Types.ASCII_STRING) {
// It's fine to go with the specified instead of the normal
} else if (prop.usualType == Types.UNKNOWN) {
// We don't know what this property normally is, but it has come
// through with a valid type, so use that
logger.log(POILogger.INFO, "Property definition for ", prop,
" is missing a type definition, found a value with type ", type);
} else {
// Oh dear, something has gone wrong...
logger.log(POILogger.WARN, "Type mismatch, expected ", prop.usualType,
" but got ", type, " for property ", prop);
going = false;
break;
}
}
// TODO Detect if it is multi-valued, since if it is
// then even fixed-length strings store their multiple
// values in another chunk (much as variable length ones)
// Work out how long the "data" is
// This might be the actual data, or just a pointer
// to another chunk which holds the data itself
boolean isPointer = false;
int length = type.getLength();
if (! type.isFixedLength()) {
isPointer = true;
length = 8;
}
// Grab the data block