org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.resources
Interface PlexusIoResourceCollection

All Known Subinterfaces:

PlexusIoArchivedResourceCollection

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPlexusIoArchiveResourceCollection, AbstractPlexusIoResourceCollection, PlexusIoCompressedFileResourceCollection

public interface PlexusIoResourceCollection

A resource collection is a set of PlexusIoResource instances.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	DEFAULT_ROLE_HINT Role hint of the default resource collection, which is a set of files in a base directory.
static java.lang.String	ROLE Role of the ResourceCollection component.

Method Summary

long	getLastModified() Returns the collections last modification time.
java.lang.String	getName(PlexusIoResource resource) Returns the resources suggested name.
java.util.Iterator	getResources() Returns an iterator over the resources in the collection.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final java.lang.String ROLE

Role of the ResourceCollection component.

DEFAULT_ROLE_HINT

public static final java.lang.String DEFAULT_ROLE_HINT

Role hint of the default resource collection, which is a set of files in a base directory.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getResources

public java.util.Iterator getResources()
                                throws java.io.IOException

Returns an iterator over the resources in the collection.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getName

public java.lang.String getName(PlexusIoResource resource)
                         throws java.io.IOException

Returns the resources suggested name. This is used for integrating file mappers.

Parameters:

resource - A resource, which has been obtained by calling getResources().

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getLastModified

public long getLastModified()
                     throws java.io.IOException

Returns the collections last modification time. For a collection of files, this might be the last modification time of the file, which has been modified at last. For an archive file, this might be the modification time of the archive file.

Returns:

PlexusIoResource.UNKNOWN_MODIFICATION_DATE, if the collections last modification time is unknown, otherwise the last modification time in milliseconds.

Throws:

java.io.IOException