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019 package org.apache.wiki.url;
020
021 import java.util.Properties;
022 import java.io.IOException;
023 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
024
025 import org.apache.wiki.WikiEngine;
026
027 /**
028 * Provides an interface through which JSPWiki constructs URLs.
029 * JSPWiki calls the methods of this interface whenever an URL
030 * that points to any JSPWiki internals is required. For example,
031 * if you need to find an URL to the editor page for page "TextFormattingRules",
032 * you would call makeURL( WikiContext.EDIT, "TextFormattingRules", false, null );
033 *
034 * @since 2.2
035 */
036 public interface URLConstructor
037 {
038 /**
039 * Initializes. Note that the engine is not fully initialized
040 * at this point, so don't do anything fancy here - use lazy
041 * init, if you have to.
042 *
043 * @param engine The WikiEngine that this URLConstructor belongs to
044 * @param properties Properties used to initialize
045 */
046 void initialize( WikiEngine engine,
047 Properties properties );
048
049 /**
050 * Constructs the URL with a bunch of parameters.
051 *
052 * @param context The request context (@see WikiContext) that you want the URL for
053 * @param name The page name (or in case of WikiContext.NONE, the auxiliary JSP page
054 * or resource you want to point at. This must be URL encoded. Null is NOT safe.
055 * @param absolute True, if you need an absolute URL. False, if both relative and absolute
056 * URLs are fine.
057 * @param parameters An URL parameter string (these must be URL-encoded, and separated with &)
058 * @return An URL pointing to the resource. Must never return null - throw an InternalWikiException
059 * if something goes wrong.
060 */
061 String makeURL( String context,
062 String name,
063 boolean absolute,
064 String parameters );
065
066 /**
067 * Should parse the "page" parameter from the actual
068 * request. This is essentially the reverse of makeURL() - whenever a request
069 * constructed by calls to makeURL() is passed to this routine, it MUST be
070 * able to parse the resource name (WikiPage, Attachment, other resource) from
071 * the request.
072 *
073 * @param context In which request context the request was made (this should
074 * help in parsing)
075 * @param request The HTTP request that was used when coming here
076 * @param encoding The encoding with which the request was made (UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1).
077 * @return This method must return the name of the resource.
078 * @throws IOException If parsing failes
079 */
080 String parsePage( String context,
081 HttpServletRequest request,
082 String encoding )
083 throws IOException;
084
085 /**
086 * Returns information which JSP page should continue handling
087 * this type of request.
088 *
089 * @param request The HTTP Request that was used to end up in this page.
090 * @return "Wiki.jsp", "PageInfo.jsp", etc. Just return the name,
091 * JSPWiki will figure out the page.
092 */
093 String getForwardPage( HttpServletRequest request );
094 }