View engines are responsible for processing views and are discovered using Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection. Implementations must look up all instances of this interface, and process a view as follows:
- Gather the set of candidate view engines by calling
supports(String)
and discarding engines that returnfalse
. - Sort the resulting set of candidates using priorities. View engines
can be decorated with
Priority
to indicate their priority; otherwise the priority is assumed to bePRIORITY_APPLICATION
. - If more than one candidate is available, choose one in an implementation-defined manner.
- Fire a
BeforeProcessViewEvent
event. - Call method
processView(ViewEngineContext)
to process view. - Fire a
AfterProcessViewEvent
event.
The default view engines for Jakarta Server Pages and Facelets use file extensions to determine
support. Namely, the default Jakarta Server Pages view engine supports views with extensions jsp
and jspx
, and the one for Facelets supports views with extension
xhtml
.
- Since:
- 1.0
- See Also:
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Field Summary
FieldsModifier and TypeFieldDescriptionstatic final String
Default value for propertyVIEW_FOLDER
.static final int
Recommended priority for all application-provided view engines (default).static final int
Priority for all built-in view engines.static final int
Recommended priority for all view engines provided by frameworks built on top of MVC implementations.static final String
Name of property that can be set to override the root location for views in an archive. -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionvoid
processView
(ViewEngineContext context) Process a view given aViewEngineContext
.boolean
Returnstrue
if this engine can process the view orfalse
otherwise.
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Field Details
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VIEW_FOLDER
Name of property that can be set to override the root location for views in an archive.- See Also:
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DEFAULT_VIEW_FOLDER
Default value for propertyVIEW_FOLDER
.- See Also:
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PRIORITY_BUILTIN
static final int PRIORITY_BUILTINPriority for all built-in view engines.- See Also:
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PRIORITY_FRAMEWORK
static final int PRIORITY_FRAMEWORKRecommended priority for all view engines provided by frameworks built on top of MVC implementations.- See Also:
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PRIORITY_APPLICATION
static final int PRIORITY_APPLICATIONRecommended priority for all application-provided view engines (default).- See Also:
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Method Details
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supports
Returnstrue
if this engine can process the view orfalse
otherwise.- Parameters:
view
- the view.- Returns:
- outcome of supports test.
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processView
Process a view given a
ViewEngineContext
. Processing a view involves merging the model and template data and writing the result to an output stream.Following the Jakarta EE threading model, the underlying view engine implementation must support this method being called by different threads. Any resources allocated during view processing must be released before the method returns.
- Parameters:
context
- the context needed for processing.- Throws:
ViewEngineException
- if an error occurs during processing.
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