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

All Known Subinterfaces:

PlexusIoArchivedResourceCollection

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPlexusIoArchiveResourceCollection, AbstractPlexusIoResourceCollection, PlexusIoCompressedFileResourceCollection, PlexusIoFileResourceCollection, PlexusIoProxyResourceCollection, PlexusIoZipFileResourceCollection

public interface PlexusIoResourceCollection

A resource collection is a set of PlexusIoResource instances.

Field Summary

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

Method Summary

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

Field Detail

ROLE

static final String ROLE

Role of the ResourceCollection component.

DEFAULT_ROLE_HINT

static final 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

Iterator<PlexusIoResource> getResources()
                                        throws IOException

Returns an iterator over the resources in the collection.

Returns:

An iterator

Throws:

IOException - .

getName

String getName(PlexusIoResource resource)
               throws IOException

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

Parameters:

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

Returns:

The resource name

Throws:

IOException - .

getLastModified

long getLastModified()
                     throws 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:

IOException - .