1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 */ 19 package org.apache.myfaces.view; 20 21 import javax.faces.view.ViewDeclarationLanguage; 22 23 /** 24 * This class represents a supported {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage} in the application. Notably, 25 * the default ViewDeclarationLanguageFactory maintains an ordered list of supported languages for 26 * the purpose of determining which one to use for a given view id by calling the {@link #handles} 27 * method of each ofthe registered support and using the first match. 28 * 29 * @author Simon Lessard (latest modification by $Author$) 30 * @version $Revision$ $Date$ 31 * 32 * @since 2.0 33 */ 34 public interface ViewDeclarationLanguageStrategy 35 { 36 /** 37 * Gets the {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage} represented by this support. 38 * 39 * @return the {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage} represented by this support 40 */ 41 public ViewDeclarationLanguage getViewDeclarationLanguage(); 42 43 /** 44 * Determines if the {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage} represented by this support should be used 45 * to handle the specified view identifier. 46 * 47 * @param viewId the view identifier 48 * 49 * @return <code>true</code> if the {@link ViewDeclarationLanguage} represented by this support 50 * should be used to handle the specified view identifier, <code>false</code> otherwise 51 */ 52 public boolean handles(String viewId); 53 }