Interface AssetFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractAssetFactory, ClasspathAssetFactory, ContextAssetFactory, ExternalUrlAssetFactory

public interface AssetFactory
Used by AssetSource to create new Assets as needed. Starting in Tapestry 5.4, the built-in implementations of this interface (for context assets, and for classpath assets) were changed so that when underlying resources changed, the client URLs for Assets are discarded; this is necessitated by two factors: 1) the client URL for an Asset now includes a checksum based on the content of the underlying resource, so a change to resource content (during development) results in a change to the URL. 2) JavaScriptStack (especially the ExtensibleJavaScriptStack implementation) made no provision for rebuilding the Assets post-construction, and there is no backwards compatible way to introduce this concept (and JavaScriptStacks are something many applications and third-party libraries make use of). So, starting in Tapestry 5.4, the implementations of Asset should be
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  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    Creates an instance of an asset.
    Returns the Resource representing the root folder of the domain this factory is responsible for.
  • Method Details

    • getRootResource

      Returns the Resource representing the root folder of the domain this factory is responsible for.
    • createAsset

      Creates an instance of an asset.
      Parameters:
      resource - a resource within this factories domain (derived from the root resource)
      Returns:
      an Asset for the resource