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fc.web.page
Interface Page

All Known Implementing Classes:
PageImpl
public interface Page

A page is a cool and sane replacement for JSP's with much better syntax.

Server side pages implement this interface via the concrete PageImpl class. This class has some additional utility methods as well that page authors may find useful.

Field Summary
static int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
           
static java.lang.String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
           
static java.lang.String DEFAULT_ENCODING
          The default encoding of the page, specified in the header sent back to the client.
static java.lang.String DEFAULT_MIME_TYPE
          The default mime-type for each page.
static java.lang.String PACKAGE_NAME
           
 
Method Summary
 void clientRedirect(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res, java.lang.String newLocation)
          Redirects the client to the new page location.
 void destroy()
          This method is invoked whenever a page is destoryed/unloaded
 java.lang.String getPagePath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)
          Returns the path to this page from the web servers document root.
 java.lang.String getRealPath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)
          Returns the real absolute directory path for the PagePath.
 java.io.CharArrayWriter getThreadLocalWriter()
          Returns a thread specific CharArrayWriter that can be passed to this method as various points in the page.
 void init(PageServlet servlet, java.lang.String contextRelativePagePath)
          This method is invoked whenever a page is created and before it is run.
 void render(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res)
           
 

Field Detail

PACKAGE_NAME

static final java.lang.String PACKAGE_NAME
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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE

static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_MIME_TYPE

static final java.lang.String DEFAULT_MIME_TYPE
The default mime-type for each page. Usually, there should be no reason to change this. However, if need be, this can be changed via a page compiler directive or turned off entirely. If it's turned off, then the mime-type should be manually specified via the javax.servlet.ServletResponse.setContentType method.

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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_ENCODING

static final java.lang.String DEFAULT_ENCODING
The default encoding of the page, specified in the header sent back to the client. This can be changed to utf-8, utf-16 or any other coding by a page directive. Alternately, this can be set to an empty string and a different encoding can also be specified in the <head> section of the html document, for example: 
<head><meta http-equiv=content-type content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'></head>
Encodings can be tricky. We are first compiling a page into a java source file, then running the source file and sending it's output to the browser. Read the page encoding and charsets if you are using any non-us-ascii or non- ISO-8859-1 characters in your molly source page.

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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE

static final java.lang.String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
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Constant Field Values
Method Detail

render

void render(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req,
            javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res)
            throws java.lang.Exception
Throws:
java.lang.Exception

init

void init(PageServlet servlet,
          java.lang.String contextRelativePagePath)
This method is invoked whenever a page is created and before it is run.

Pages should override this method to instantiate/set-up page variables as needed. (pages have no-arg constructors so like most of the servlet API, setup is done in a init method instead).

When overriding this class, you must remember to call: super.init

The page class is reloaded if the page is modified. Variables should therefore be cleaned up in the destory method as needed.

destroy

void destroy()
This method is invoked whenever a page is destoryed/unloaded

getPagePath

java.lang.String getPagePath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)
Returns the path to this page from the web servers document root.

So for example, if the page is at foo/bar.mp and is running under the webapp context of context1, then the page path will be: /context1/foo/bar.mp. If there is no specific web app (i.e., the most common case of a default "" webapp), then the page path will be /foo/bar.mp

This page path is essentially what needs to be typed in the browsers URL window to invoke the page. It's also useful as form action parameters. For example, in a molly page: 

..
<form action="[=getPagePath(req)]" method="post">
..
</form>
This will submit the form to the same page where the form is defined. This can be hard coded of course but by using getPagePath, the html does not have to be changed if the name of the page changes on disk.

getRealPath

java.lang.String getRealPath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)
Returns the real absolute directory path for the PagePath.

So, for example, for a webserver document root at /web/sites/default/ and a page located in foo/bar.mp, the real path will be: /web/sites/default/foo/bar.mp

clientRedirect

void clientRedirect(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req,
                    javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res,
                    java.lang.String newLocation)
                    throws java.io.IOException
Redirects the client to the new page location. This is a thin wrapper around the HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect method (possibly easier to remember).

Parameters:
req - the current request
res - the current response
location - See javax.servlet.http.HttpResponse#sendRedirect. Essentially, the location can be relative to the specified request's URI or relative to the context root if it contains a leading '/'
Throws:
java.io.IOException

getThreadLocalWriter

java.io.CharArrayWriter getThreadLocalWriter()
Returns a thread specific CharArrayWriter that can be passed to this method as various points in the page. The contents of this writer can then be printed on the page when desired.

Note: The writer is not reset or flushed when it is retrieved. It must be reset manually via calling the CharArrayWriter.reset() method. This design-decision allows request threads to collect debugging data across multiple pages.

The suggested usage idiom is: 

        dbg(true);
        CharArrayWriter cw = getThreadLocalWriter():
        bug(cw, "some message");
        ...
        bug(cw, "other message");
        ...
        
        pw.writeTo(out);
        pw.reset();

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