de.intarsys.tools.locator
Class FileLocatorFactory

java.lang.Object
  de.intarsys.tools.locator.FileLocatorFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

ILocatorFactory

public class FileLocatorFactory
extends Object
implements ILocatorFactory

The factory for FileLocator objects.

FileLocator instances are created either using an absolute path name or are looked up relative to the factorys search path. Multiple search paths may be defined.

Field Summary

static String

PATH_SEPARATOR The separator character for the definition of multiple search paths

Constructor Summary

FileLocatorFactory()
Create a new factory.

Method Summary

ILocator	createLocator(String path) The file locator factory supports looking up resources in multiple paths.
String	getSearchPathDefinition()
List	getSearchPaths()
boolean	isSynchSynchronous()
void	setSearchPathDefinition(String searchPath)
void	setSearchPaths(List searchPaths)
void	setSynchSynchronous(boolean synchSynchronous)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PATH_SEPARATOR

public static final String PATH_SEPARATOR

The separator character for the definition of multiple search paths

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

FileLocatorFactory

public FileLocatorFactory()

Create a new factory.

Method Detail

setSearchPathDefinition

public void setSearchPathDefinition(String searchPath)

getSearchPathDefinition

public String getSearchPathDefinition()

setSearchPaths

public void setSearchPaths(List searchPaths)

getSearchPaths

public List getSearchPaths()

setSynchSynchronous

public void setSynchSynchronous(boolean synchSynchronous)

isSynchSynchronous

public boolean isSynchSynchronous()

createLocator

public ILocator createLocator(String path)

The file locator factory supports looking up resources in multiple paths. To preserve compatibility to ILocatorFactory, the last locator created is returned if no match is found. This is a valid locator, even so no existing physical resource is designated.

Specified by:

createLocator in interface ILocatorFactory

Parameters:

path - The fully qualified location definition.

Returns:

The ILocator object created from the location.

See Also:

ILocatorFactory.createLocator(java.lang.String)