net.sf.jasperreports.jsf.resource
Interface Resource

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClasspathResource, ContextResource, FileResource, URLResource

public interface Resource

Resource abstraction which can be used to load reports from any kind of source

Author:

antonio.alonso

Method Summary

InputStream	getInputStream() Obtains an InputStream which can be used to read the resource data.
URL	getLocation() Obtains the URL location of this resource.
String	getName() Name of the resource.
String	getPath() The path part of the resource.
String	getSimpleName()

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Name of the resource.

getSimpleName

String getSimpleName()

getLocation

URL getLocation()
                throws IOException

Obtains the URL location of this resource.

Returns:

The location of the resource

Throws:

IOException

getInputStream

InputStream getInputStream()
                           throws IOException

Obtains an InputStream which can be used to read the resource data.

Users of this stream are responsible of closing it

Returns:

An InputStream to read the resource data

Throws:

IOException

getPath

String getPath()

The path part of the resource.

Returns:

the absolute path to the resource.