maint-5-2/tapestry-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tapestry5/services/ComponentSource.java

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package org.apache.tapestry5.services;

import org.apache.tapestry5.EventConstants;
import org.apache.tapestry5.runtime.Component;

/**
 * Used by classes that need to retrieve a component by its complete id, or a page by its logical page name or root
 * component class. The complete id is the logical name of the containing page, a colon, and the nested component id. It
 * may also just be the page name (for the root component of a page).
 */
public interface ComponentSource
{
    /**
     * Gets a component by its {@linkplain org.apache.tapestry5.ComponentResourcesCommon#getCompleteId() complete id}.
     * If the component id is for a mixin, then the mixin attached to the component will be returned. A mixin's complete
     * id is its container's complete id, suffixed with "$" and the mixin's id (its simple class name).
     * 
     * @param completeId
     *            complete component id (case insensitive)
     * @return the component
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if the component can not be found
     * @see org.apache.tapestry5.ComponentResourcesCommon#getCompleteId()
     */
    Component getComponent(String completeId);

    /**
     * Returns the page identified by its logical page name. A logical page name is the short form of a page name often
     * emebedded into URLs.
     * 
     * @param pageName
     *            the logical page name
     * @return the corresponding page's root component
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if the page can not be found
     */
    Component getPage(String pageName);

    /**
     * A convienience for obtaining a page instance via a class instance. This is provided so as to be refactoring
     * safe. The pageClass is simply converted to a class name and this is used to locate a page instance.
     * 
     * @param pageClass
     *            used to locate the page instance
     * @return the page instance
     */
    Component getPage(Class pageClass);

    /**
     * Returns the <em>active page</em>, as defined by {@link RequestGlobals#getActivePageName()}. This is the primary
     * page for handling the current request, the page which will be {@linkplain EventConstants#ACTIVATE activated} for
     * the request.
     * The identity of the active page is not known until the correct {@link Dispatcher} determines this.
     * 
     * @return the active page, or null if no active page is yet identified
     * @since 5.2.0
     */
    Component getActivePage();
}