| org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolURLManager
All known Subclasses: org.sakaiproject.portal.util.ToolURLManagerImpl,
| ToolURLManager | | public interface ToolURLManager (Code) | | The ToolURLManager interface allows creation of ToolURL that reference the portlet itself. Sakai tools assume the servlet APIs as the basis for generating markup and
getting parameters, yet for presentation inside different portals, the URL
encoding API javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse#encodeURL is not
sufficient. This is because the Servlet API treats all URLs the same (hence a
single encodeURL method), whereas portlet technologies such as JSR-168 and
WSRP differentiate between URLs based on what they represent. There are
primarily three different URL types as distinguished by WSRP (JSR 168 has 2,
which is a subset of the three types distinguished by WSRP). The only
reasonable way to allow tools to generate markup that can be presented in a
portlet is to have the tools differentiate the URLs that are embedded in the
markup. Some of this can be done automatically if the URLs are generated
using macros or other APIs that allows for this differentiation to be plugged
underneath. For instance, most of velocity based tools used different macros
for different URL types, so it is possible to plug the appropriate URL
encoding underneath the macros when the tool is being rendered as a portlet.
However, tools that directly access Servlet APIs to generate markup must use
these APIs directly.
Using these APIs is simple. Instead of creating a String URL with the
parameters, you create a ToolURL object. You must decide whether the URL type
(render, action or resource) to create a ToolURL object. You can then set the
request path and request parameters by using methods in ToolURL. Finally, to
include it in the generated markup, you convert the ToolURL to a String using
the ToolURL#toString method.
author:
Vishal Goenka |
| createActionURL | | ToolURL createActionURL()(Code) | | Create a URL that is an action performed on this tool. HTML Form actions that initiate an HTTP POST back to the tool falls in this category.
a URL that is an action performed on this tool |
| createRenderURL | | ToolURL createRenderURL()(Code) | | Create a URL that is a hyperlink back to this tool. HTTP GET requests initiated by simple <a href> construct falls in this category.
a URL that is a hyperlink back to this tool |
| createResourceURL | | ToolURL createResourceURL()(Code) | | Create a URL for a resource related to the tool, but not necessarily pointing back to the tool. Image files, CSS files, JS files etc. are examples of Resource URLs. Paths for resource URLs may have to be relative to the server, as opposed to being
relative to the tool.
a URL for a resource |
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