net.sf.mmm.util.resource.api
Interface BrowsableResourceFactory

All Superinterfaces:

DataResourceFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractBrowsableResourceFactory, BrowsableResourceFactoryImpl

@ComponentSpecification
public interface BrowsableResourceFactory
extends DataResourceFactory

This is the interface for a factory used to create instances of BrowsableResource.

Since:

2.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

See Also:

DataResourceFactory

Method Summary

BrowsableResource

createBrowsableResource(String resourceUri) This method creates a new BrowsableResource from the given resourceUri.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.util.resource.api.DataResourceFactory

createDataResource

Method Detail

createBrowsableResource

BrowsableResource createBrowsableResource(String resourceUri)
                                          throws ResourceUriUndefinedException

This method creates a new BrowsableResource from the given resourceUri. The following URI-schemes are guaranteed to be supported:

scheme	example URI	default implementation
file	file:///tmp/foo.xml	FileResource

Parameters:

resourceUri - is the absolute URI pointing to the location of the requested BrowsableResource.

Returns:

the requested BrowsableResource.

Throws:

ResourceUriUndefinedException - if the given resourceUri is undefined (e.g. the scheme is NOT supported).