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| 1 | /* | |
| 2 | * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional | |
| 3 | * information regarding copyright ownership. | |
| 4 | * | |
| 5 | * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 6 | * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as | |
| 7 | * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of | |
| 8 | * the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
| 9 | * | |
| 10 | * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 11 | * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 | * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
| 13 | * Lesser General Public License for more details. | |
| 14 | * | |
| 15 | * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public | |
| 16 | * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free | |
| 17 | * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | |
| 18 | * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. | |
| 19 | */ | |
| 20 | package org.xwiki.environment; | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | import java.io.File; | |
| 23 | import java.io.InputStream; | |
| 24 | import java.net.URL; | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Role; | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | /** | |
| 29 | * Abstraction that represents an Environment (Java SE, Servlet, Portlet, etc) and provides API to access | |
| 30 | * environment-related data. | |
| 31 | * | |
| 32 | * @version $Id: bbe14c304d432691d6493a67eb344fbd40d40c8b $ | |
| 33 | * @since 3.5M1 | |
| 34 | */ | |
| 35 | @Role | |
| 36 | public interface Environment | |
| 37 | { | |
| 38 | /** | |
| 39 | * Gets the directory for storing temporary data. The content of this directory may be deleted across restarts and | |
| 40 | * thus is not a safe place to store permanent/important data. | |
| 41 | * | |
| 42 | * @return a {@link File} object pointing to a directory that the application can use for storing temporary files | |
| 43 | */ | |
| 44 | File getTemporaryDirectory(); | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | /** | |
| 47 | * Gets the root directory of a location for storing persisting data. Contrary to the Temporary Directory the | |
| 48 | * content of this directory is guaranteed to persist across time. | |
| 49 | * | |
| 50 | * @return a {@link File} object pointing to the root folder of the permanent directory | |
| 51 | */ | |
| 52 | File getPermanentDirectory(); | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | /** | |
| 55 | * @param resourceName the full name of the resource to access (eg "/somefile.properties") | |
| 56 | * @return the resource location as a {@link URL} or null if not found | |
| 57 | */ | |
| 58 | URL getResource(String resourceName); | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | /** | |
| 61 | * @param resourceName the full name of the resource to access (eg "/somefile.properties") | |
| 62 | * @return the resource location as an {@link InputStream} | |
| 63 | */ | |
| 64 | InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resourceName); | |
| 65 | } |