am 3643dc8c: am 3069a6da: Merge "SDK: last of the backup/restore docs content" into froyo

Merge commit '3643dc8c73bbf53c7aa6bb73d09d83c7578639e0' into kraken

* commit '3643dc8c73bbf53c7aa6bb73d09d83c7578639e0':
  SDK: last of the backup/restore docs content

core/java/android/app/backup/BackupAgentHelper.java

@@ -21,16 +21,28 @@ import android.os.ParcelFileDescriptor;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 /**
- * A convenient BackupAgent wrapper class that automatically manages
+ * A convenient {@link BackupAgent} wrapper class that automatically manages
  * heterogeneous data sets within the backup data, each identified by a unique
- * key prefix. An application will typically extend this class in their own
- * backup agent. Then, within the agent's onBackup() and onRestore() methods, it
- * will call {@link #addHelper(String, BackupHelper)} one or more times to
- * specify the data sets, then invoke super.onBackup() or super.onRestore() to
- * have the BackupAgentHelper implementation process the data.
+ * key prefix.  When processing a backup or restore operation, the BackupAgentHelper
+ * dispatches to one or more installed {@link BackupHelper helpers} objects, each
+ * of which is responsible for a defined subset of the data being processed.
  * <p>
- * STOPSHIP: document!
+ * An application will typically extend this class in their own
+ * backup agent. Then, within the agent's {@link BackupAgent#onCreate() onCreate()}
+ * method, it will call {@link #addHelper(String, BackupHelper)} one or more times to
+ * install the handlers for each kind of data it wishes to manage within its backups.
+ * <p>
+ * The Android framework currently provides two predefined {@link BackupHelper} classes:
+ * {@link FileBackupHelper}, which manages the backup and restore of entire files
+ * within an application's data directory hierarchy; and {@link SharedPreferencesBackupHelper},
+ * which manages the backup and restore of an application's
+ * {@link android.content.SharedPreferences} data.
+ * <p>
+ * An application can also implement its own helper classes to work within the
+ * {@link BackupAgentHelper} framework.  See the {@link BackupHelper} interface
+ * documentation for details.
  *
+ * @see BackupHelper
  * @see FileBackupHelper
  * @see SharedPreferencesBackupHelper
  */

core/java/android/app/backup/BackupDataInputStream.java

@@ -20,7 +20,21 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 /**
- * STOPSHIP: document */
+ * Used by {@link BackupHelper} classes within the {@link BackupAgentHelper} mechanism,
+ * this class provides an {@link java.io.InputStream}-like interface for accessing an
+ * entity's data during a restore operation.
+ * <p>
+ * When {@link BackupHelper#restoreEntity(BackupDataInputStream) BackupHelper.restoreEntity(BackupDataInputStream)}
+ * is called, the current entity's header has already been read from the underlying
+ * {@link BackupDataInput}.  The entity's key string and total data size are available
+ * through this class's {@link #getKey()} and {@link #size()} methods, respectively.
+ * <p class="note">
+ * <em>Note:</em> The caller should take care not to seek or close the underlying data
+ * source, or to read more than {@link #size()} bytes total from the stream.</p>
+ *
+ * @see BackupAgentHelper
+ * @see BackupHelper
+ */
 public class BackupDataInputStream extends InputStream {
 
     String key;
@@ -34,6 +48,13 @@ public class BackupDataInputStream extends InputStream {
         mData = data;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read one byte of entity data from the stream, returning it as
+     * an integer value.  If more than {@link #size()} bytes of data
+     * are read from the stream, the output of this method is undefined.
+     *
+     * @return The byte read, or undefined if the end of the stream has been reached.
+     */
     public int read() throws IOException {
         byte[] one = mOneByte;
         if (mOneByte == null) {
@@ -43,18 +64,52 @@ public class BackupDataInputStream extends InputStream {
         return one[0];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read up to {@code size} bytes of data into a byte array, beginning at position
+     * {@code offset} within the array.
+     *
+     * @param b Byte array into which the data will be read
+     * @param offset The data will be stored in {@code b} beginning at this index
+     *   within the array.
+     * @param size The number of bytes to read in this operation.  If insufficient
+     *   data exists within the entity to fulfill this request, only as much data
+     *   will be read as is available.
+     * @return The number of bytes of data read, or zero if all of the entity's
+     *   data has already been read.
+     */
     public int read(byte[] b, int offset, int size) throws IOException {
         return mData.readEntityData(b, offset, size);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read enough entity data into a byte array to fill the array.
+     *
+     * @param b Byte array to fill with data from the stream.  If the stream does not
+     *   have sufficient data to fill the array, then the contents of the remainder of
+     *   the array will be undefined.
+     * @return The number of bytes of data read, or zero if all of the entity's
+     *   data has already been read.
+     */
     public int read(byte[] b) throws IOException {
         return mData.readEntityData(b, 0, b.length);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Report the key string associated with this entity within the backup data set.
+     *
+     * @return The key string for this entity, equivalent to calling
+     *   {@link BackupDataInput#getKey()} on the underlying {@link BackupDataInput}.
+     */
     public String getKey() {
         return this.key;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Report the total number of bytes of data available for the current entity.
+     *
+     * @return The number of data bytes available, equivalent to calling
+     *   {@link BackupDataInput#getDataSize()} on the underlying {@link BackupDataInput}.
+     */
     public int size() {
         return this.dataSize;
     }

core/java/android/app/backup/BackupHelper.java

@@ -19,11 +19,21 @@ package android.app.backup;
 import android.os.ParcelFileDescriptor;
 
 /**
- * A convenient interface to be used with the
- * {@link android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper} class to implement backup and restore of
- * arbitrary data types.
+ * This interface defines the calling interface that {@link BackupAgentHelper} uses
+ * when dispatching backup and restore operations to the installed helpers.
+ * Applications can define and install their own helpers as well as using those
+ * provided as part of the Android framework.
  * <p>
- * STOPSHIP: document!
+ * Although multiple helper objects may be installed simultaneously, each helper
+ * is responsible only for handling its own data, and will not see entities
+ * created by other components within the backup system.  Invocations of multiple
+ * helpers are performed sequentially by the {@link BackupAgentHelper}, with each
+ * helper given a chance to access its own saved state from within the state record
+ * produced during the previous backup operation.
+ *
+ * @see BackupAgentHelper
+ * @see FileBackupHelper
+ * @see SharedPreferencesBackupHelper
  */
 public interface BackupHelper {
     /**
@@ -31,24 +41,46 @@ public interface BackupHelper {
      * application's data directory need to be backed up, write them to
      * <code>data</code>, and fill in <code>newState</code> with the state as it
      * exists now.
+     * <p>
+     * Implementing this method is much like implementing
+     * {@link BackupAgent#onBackup(ParcelFileDescriptor, BackupDataOutput, ParcelFileDescriptor)}
+     * &mdash; the method parameters are the same.  When this method is invoked the
+     * {@code oldState} descriptor points to the beginning of the state data
+     * written during this helper's previous backup operation, and the {@code newState}
+     * descriptor points to the file location at which the helper should write its
+     * new state after performing the backup operation.
+     * <p class="note">
+     * <em>Note:</em> The helper should not close or seek either the {@code oldState} or
+     * the {@code newState} file descriptors.</p>
      */
     public void performBackup(ParcelFileDescriptor oldState, BackupDataOutput data,
             ParcelFileDescriptor newState);
 
     /**
      * Called by {@link android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper BackupAgentHelper}
-     * to restore one entity from the restore dataset.
-     * <p class=note>
-     * Do not close the <code>data</code> stream.  Do not read more than
-     * <code>data.size()</code> bytes from <code>data</code>.
+     * to restore a single entity from the restore data set.  This method will be
+     * called for each entity in the data set that belongs to this handler.
+     * <p class="note">
+     * <em>Note:</em> Do not close the <code>data</code> stream.  Do not read more than
+     * <code>data.size()</code> bytes from <code>data</code>.</p>
      */
     public void restoreEntity(BackupDataInputStream data);
 
     /**
      * Called by {@link android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper BackupAgentHelper}
      * after a restore operation to write the backup state file corresponding to
-     * the data as processed by the helper.
+     * the data as processed by the helper.  The data written here will be
+     * available to the helper during the next call to its
+     * {@link #performBackup(ParcelFileDescriptor, BackupDataOutput, ParcelFileDescriptor)}
+     * method.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that this method will be called even if the handler's
+     * {@link #restoreEntity(BackupDataInputStream)} method was never invoked during
+     * the restore operation.
+     * <p class="note">
+     * <em>Note:</em> The helper should not close or seek the {@code newState}
+     * file descriptor.</p>
      */
-    public void writeNewStateDescription(ParcelFileDescriptor fd);
+    public void writeNewStateDescription(ParcelFileDescriptor newState);
 }