com.endeca.infront.content.source
Class AbstractContentSource

java.lang.Object
  com.endeca.infront.content.source.AbstractContentSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContentSource

Direct Known Subclasses:

AuthoringContentSource, LiveContentSource

public abstract class AbstractContentSource
extends Object
implements ContentSource

Base implementation of the ContentSource interface.

Provides an empty destroy() method and a working implementation of resolveContent(HttpServletRequest) which makes use of the abstract ContentSource.resolveContent(String) method.

Field Summary

protected String

defaultSiteRootPath

Constructor Summary

AbstractContentSource(String defaultSiteRootPath)
Constructs a content source with the given default site root path.

Method Summary

void	destroy() Empty implementation of the destroy method
ContentLocator	resolveContent(HttpServletRequest request) Attempts to resolve content based on the given request.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.endeca.infront.content.source.ContentSource

resolveContent

Field Detail

defaultSiteRootPath

protected String defaultSiteRootPath

Constructor Detail

AbstractContentSource

public AbstractContentSource(String defaultSiteRootPath)

Constructs a content source with the given default site root path.

Parameters:

defaultSiteRootPath - If a valid content URI cannot be extracted from the request in the resolveContent(HttpServletRequest) method, it will attempt to resolve the content URI using this default site root path.

Method Detail

resolveContent

public ContentLocator resolveContent(HttpServletRequest request)
                              throws ContentException

Attempts to resolve content based on the given request.

If a valid content URI cannot be extracted from the request, we will attempt to resolve the content URI using the default site root path that was provided when this object was constructed.

Specified by:

resolveContent in interface ContentSource

Parameters:

request - The HttpServletRequest containing the content URI.

Returns:

a ContentLocator with the information that was inferred from the HttpServletRequest.

Throws:

ContentException - Thrown when there is an error accessing or forming content.

destroy

public void destroy()

Empty implementation of the destroy method

Specified by:

destroy in interface ContentSource