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Inside Macintosh: Cyberdog Programmer's Kit / Part 3 - Cyberdog Reference

Chapter 7 - Classes and Methods / CyberItem

GetContentKind

Retrieves the part kind of the data referenced by this Cyberdog item.

ODTypeToken GetContentKind ();

return value

The part kind of the data referenced by the CyberItem object.

DISCUSSION

If this Cyberdog item references downloadable data, this method should return the part kind of the data that is provided by the corresponding Cyberdog stream. Otherwise, this method should return the constant kODNullTypeToken. The superclass implementation returns kODNULLTypeToken.

This method should call the ODSession::GetTokenizer method of OpenDoc to translate the Cyberdog item's part kind into an ODTypeToken. This method should throw the kCDErrItemNotResolved exception if the Cyberdog item is not resolved.

If you subclass CyberItem and override this method, your override must not call its inherited method; that is, your override method must implement this method's functionality completely.