org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping
Interface UrlMapping

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable, UrlCreator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractUrlMapping, RegexUrlMapping, ResponseCodeUrlMapping

public interface UrlMapping
extends Comparable, UrlCreator

An interface that defines a URL mapping. A URL mapping is a mapping between a URI such as /book/list and a controller, action and/or id

A UrlMapping should implement Comparable so that UrlMapping instances can be ordered to allow for precendence rules. In other words the URL /book/list should be matched before /book/* as the wildcard is of lesser precedence. By implementing Comparable this can be allowed for.

Since:

0.5

Created: Feb 28, 2007 Time: 5:49:41 PM

Author:

Graeme Rocher

Field Summary

static String	ACTION
static String	CONTROLLER

Method Summary

Object	getActionName() Retrieves the action name which is either a groovy.lang.Closure that evaluates the action name at runtime or a java.lang.String that represents the action name
ConstrainedProperty[]	getConstraints() The constraints the apply to this UrlMapping.
Object	getControllerName() Retrieves the controller name which is either a groovy.lang.Closure that evaluates the controller name at runtime or a java.lang.String that represents the controller name
UrlMappingData	getUrlData() Retrieves the UrlMappingData instance that describes this UrlMapping
Object	getViewName() Returns the name of the view to map to
UrlMappingInfo	match(String uri) Matches the given URI and returns an instance of the UrlMappingInfo interface or null if a match couldn't be established
void	setParameterValues(Map parameterValues) Sets any parameter values that should be populated into the request

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.UrlCreator

createRelativeURL, createURL, createURL, createURL, createURL

Field Detail

CONTROLLER

static final String CONTROLLER

See Also:

Constant Field Values

ACTION

static final String ACTION

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

match

UrlMappingInfo match(String uri)

Matches the given URI and returns an instance of the UrlMappingInfo interface or null if a match couldn't be established

Parameters:

uri - The URI to match

Returns:

An instance of UrlMappingInfo or null if the URI doesn't match

getUrlData

UrlMappingData getUrlData()

Retrieves the UrlMappingData instance that describes this UrlMapping

Returns:

The UrlMappingData instance

getConstraints

ConstrainedProperty[] getConstraints()

The constraints the apply to this UrlMapping. Each constraint maps to a GString token in a URL mapping in order. For example consider the URL:

 
     /blog/$author/$title/$year?/$month?/$day?
 

This results in 5 ConstrainedProperty instances called author, title, year, month and day

Returns:

An array containing the ConstrainedProperty objects of this URLMapping

getControllerName

Object getControllerName()

Retrieves the controller name which is either a groovy.lang.Closure that evaluates the controller name at runtime or a java.lang.String that represents the controller name

Returns:

The controller name as a Closure or String

getActionName

Object getActionName()

Retrieves the action name which is either a groovy.lang.Closure that evaluates the action name at runtime or a java.lang.String that represents the action name

Returns:

The action name as a Closure or String

getViewName

Object getViewName()

Returns the name of the view to map to

Returns:

The view name

setParameterValues

void setParameterValues(Map parameterValues)

Sets any parameter values that should be populated into the request

Parameters:

parameterValues - The parameter values to set