Added in API level 8

FileBackupHelper

public class FileBackupHelper
extends Object implements BackupHelper

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.app.backup.FileBackupHelper


A helper class that can be used in conjunction with BackupAgentHelper to manage the backup of a set of files. Whenever backup is performed, all files changed since the last backup will be saved in their entirety. When backup first occurs, every file in the list provided to FileBackupHelper(Context, String) will be backed up.

During restore, if the helper encounters data for a file that was not specified when the FileBackupHelper object was constructed, that data will be ignored.

Note: This should be used only with small configuration files, not large binary files.

Summary

Public constructors

FileBackupHelper(Context context, String... files)

Construct a helper to manage backup/restore of entire files within the application's data directory hierarchy.

Public methods

void performBackup(ParcelFileDescriptor oldState, BackupDataOutput data, ParcelFileDescriptor newState)

Based on oldState, determine which of the files from the application's data directory need to be backed up, write them to the data stream, and fill in newState with the state as it exists now.

void restoreEntity(BackupDataInputStream data)

Restore one record [representing a single file] from the restore dataset.

void writeNewStateDescription(ParcelFileDescriptor fd)

Called by BackupAgentHelper after a restore operation to write the backup state file corresponding to the data as processed by the helper.

Inherited methods

Public constructors

FileBackupHelper

Added in API level 8
public FileBackupHelper (Context context, 
                String... files)

Construct a helper to manage backup/restore of entire files within the application's data directory hierarchy.

Parameters
context Context: The backup agent's Context object

files String: A list of the files to be backed up or restored.

Public methods

performBackup

Added in API level 8
public void performBackup (ParcelFileDescriptor oldState, 
                BackupDataOutput data, 
                ParcelFileDescriptor newState)

Based on oldState, determine which of the files from the application's data directory need to be backed up, write them to the data stream, and fill in newState with the state as it exists now. When oldState is null, all the files will be backed up.

This should only be called directly from within the BackupAgentHelper implementation. See BackupAgent.onBackup(ParcelFileDescriptor, BackupDataOutput, ParcelFileDescriptor) for a description of parameter meanings.

Parameters
oldState ParcelFileDescriptor: An open, read-only ParcelFileDescriptor pointing to the last backup state provided by the application. May be null, in which case no prior state is being provided and the application should perform a full backup.

data BackupDataOutput: An open, read/write BackupDataOutput pointing to the backup data destination. Typically the application will use backup helper classes to write to this file.

newState ParcelFileDescriptor: An open, read/write ParcelFileDescriptor pointing to an empty file. The application should record the final backup state here after writing the requested data to the data output stream.

restoreEntity

Added in API level 8
public void restoreEntity (BackupDataInputStream data)

Restore one record [representing a single file] from the restore dataset.

This should only be called directly from within the BackupAgentHelper implementation.

Parameters
data BackupDataInputStream: An open BackupDataInputStream from which the backup data can be read.

writeNewStateDescription

Added in API level 8
public void writeNewStateDescription (ParcelFileDescriptor fd)

Called by BackupAgentHelper after a restore operation to write the backup state file corresponding to the data as processed by the helper. The data written here will be available to the helper during the next call to its performBackup() method.

This method will be called even if the handler's restoreEntity() method was never invoked during the restore operation.

Note: The helper should not close or seek the newState file descriptor.

Parameters
fd ParcelFileDescriptor: A ParcelFileDescriptor to which the new state will be written.