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package com.sun.jersey.spi.template;
import com.sun.jersey.api.core.ResourceConfig;
import com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
/**
* A view processor.
*
* Implementations of this interface shall be capable of resolving a
* template name to a template reference that identifies a template supported
* by the implementation. And, processing the template, identified by template
* reference, the results of which are written to an output stream.
*
* Implementations can register a view processor as a provider, for
* example, annotating the implementation class with {@link Provider}
* or registering an implementing class or instance as a singleton with
* {@link ResourceConfig} or {@link Application}.
*
* Such view processors could be JSP view processors (supported by the
* Jersey servlet and filter implementations) or say Freemarker or Velocity
* view processors (not implemented).
*
* @param the type of the template object.
* @author [email protected]
*/
public interface ViewProcessor {
/**
* Resolve a template name to a template reference.
*
* @param name the template name
* @return the template reference, otherwise null
* if the template name cannot be resolved.
*/
T resolve(String name);
/**
* Process a template and write the result to an output stream.
*
* @param t the template reference. This is obtained by calling the
* {@link #resolve(java.lang.String)} method with a template name.
* @param viewable the viewable that contains the model to be passed to the
* template.
* @param out the output stream to write the result of processing the
* template.
* @throws java.io.IOException if there was an error processing the
* template.
*/
void writeTo(T t, Viewable viewable, OutputStream out) throws IOException;
}