org.eclipse.persistence.jpa

Interface Archive

All Known Implementing Classes:

InMemoryArchive, org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.deployment.URLArchive

public interface Archive

Provides an abstraction to deal with various kinds of URLs that can be returned by PersistenceUnitInfo.getPersistenceUnitRootUrl()

See Also:

ArchiveFactoryImpl

Author:

[email protected]

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close() Close this archive and associated InputStream.
java.io.InputStream	getDescriptorStream()
java.util.Iterator<java.lang.String>	getEntries() Returns an Iterator of the file entries.
java.io.InputStream	getEntry(java.lang.String entryPath) Returns the InputStream for the given entry name.
java.net.URL	getEntryAsURL(java.lang.String entryPath) Returns the URL for the given entry name.
java.net.URL	getRootURL()

Method Detail

getEntries

java.util.Iterator<java.lang.String> getEntries()

Returns an Iterator of the file entries. Each String represents a file name relative to the root of the module.

getEntry

java.io.InputStream getEntry(java.lang.String entryPath)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Returns the InputStream for the given entry name. Returns null if no such entry exists. The entry name must be relative to the root of the module.

Parameters:

entryPath - the file name relative to the root of the module.

Returns:

the InputStream for the given entry name or null if not found.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getEntryAsURL

java.net.URL getEntryAsURL(java.lang.String entryPath)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Returns the URL for the given entry name. Returns null if no such entry exists. The entry name must be relative to the root of the module.

Parameters:

entryPath - the file name relative to the root of the module.

Returns:

the URL for the given entry name or null if not found.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getRootURL

java.net.URL getRootURL()

Returns:

the URL that this archive represents.

getDescriptorStream

java.io.InputStream getDescriptorStream()
                                 throws java.io.IOException

Returns:

an input stream on the persistence descriptor.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

close

void close()

Close this archive and associated InputStream.