1 /* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2006, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 package org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context; 23 24 import java.io.IOException; 25 26 import org.jboss.virtual.spi.VirtualFileHandler; 27 28 /** 29 * A handler that has structure, i.e. you want 30 * to go through the path in individual elements 31 * 32 * @author <a HREF="adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a> 33 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $ 34 */ 35 public interface StructuredVirtualFileHandler 36 { 37 /** 38 * Create a virtual file context 39 * 40 * @param name the name 41 * @return the handler 42 * @throws IOException for any error accessing the virtual file system 43 * @throws IllegalArgumentException for a null name 44 */ 45 VirtualFileHandler createChildHandler(String name) throws IOException; 46 } 47