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package org.apache.struts2.dispatcher;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface for loading static resources, based on a path. After implementing your own static content loader
 * you must tell the framework how to use it, eg.
 *
 * &lt;bean name="myContentLoader" type="org.apache.struts2.dispatcher" class="com.company.struts.MyContentLoader"/&gt;
 * &lt;constant name="struts.staticContentLoader" value="myContentLoader"/&gt;
 *
 * Check {@link org.apache.struts2.config.DefaultBeanSelectionProvider} for more details.
 */
public interface StaticContentLoader {

    /**
     * @param path Requested resource path
     * @return true if this loader is able to load this type of resource, false otherwise
     */
    public boolean canHandle(String path);

    /**
     * @param filterConfig The filter configuration
     */
    public abstract void setHostConfig(HostConfig filterConfig);

    /**
     * Locate a static resource and copy directly to the response, setting the
     * appropriate caching headers.
     *
     * @param path     The resource name
     * @param request  The request
     * @param response The response
     * @throws IOException If anything goes wrong
     */
    public abstract void findStaticResource(String path, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws IOException;

}
