org.wso2.carbon.ui.util

Interface UIResourceProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

BundleBasedUIResourceProvider, UIResourceRegistry

public interface UIResourceProvider

Defines a set of methos to load UI resources and resource paths from resource providers such as OSGi Bundles, registry, file system, etc.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
URL	getUIResource(String path) Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to a specified path.
Set<String>	getUIResourcePaths(String path) Returns a directory-like listing of all the paths to resources within the web application whose longest sub-path matches the supplied path argument.

Method Detail

getUIResource

URL getUIResource(String path)

Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to a specified path. The path must begin with a "/" and is interpreted as relative to the current context root. This method returns null if no resource is mapped to the pathname.

Parameters:

path - a String specifying the path to the resource

Returns:

the resource located at the named path, or null if there is no resource at that path

getUIResourcePaths

Set<String> getUIResourcePaths(String path)

Returns a directory-like listing of all the paths to resources within the web application whose longest sub-path matches the supplied path argument. Paths indicating subdirectory paths end with a '/'. The returned paths are all relative to the root of resource provider and have a leading '/'. For example, for a resource provider containing /welcome.html /WEB_INF /WEB-INF/web.xml /WEB-INF/tiles /WEB-INF/tiles/main_defs.xml getResourcePaths("/") returns {"/welcome.html", "/WEB_INF"}. getResourcePaths("/WEB_INF/") returns {"/WEB-INF/web.xml", "/WEB-INF/tiles/"}. getResourcePaths("/WEB-INF/tiles/") returns {"/WEB-INF/tiles/main_defs.xml"}.

Parameters:

path - partial path used to match the resources, which must start with a /

Returns:

a Set containing the directory listing, or null if there are no resources whose path begins with the supplied path.