ch.grengine.sources

Interface Sources

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseSources, CompositeSources, DirBasedSources, FixedSetSources

public interface Sources

Interface for a set of Source that can change with time.

A typical example is a directory that contains Groovy scripts which can be modified, deleted and created. (This use case is implemented by DirBasedSources.)

Since:

1.0

Author:

Alain Stalder, Made in Switzerland.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
CompilerFactory	getCompilerFactory() gets the compiler factory that should be used to compile the sources.
long	getLastModified() updates the source set, if necessary, and returns the last modified of when last found changed.
String	getName() gets the name of the sources.
Set<Source>	getSourceSet() updates the source set, if necessary, and returns it.
String	toString() returns a string suitable for logging.

Method Detail

getSourceSet

Set<Source> getSourceSet()

updates the source set, if necessary, and returns it.

Returns:

source set

Since:

1.0

getLastModified

long getLastModified()

updates the source set, if necessary, and returns the last modified of when last found changed.

You should not rely on this number to increase monotonically or even to represent an actual date and time, but instead consider the sources changed each time this method returns a different value.

Returns:

last modified

Since:

1.0

getName

String getName()

gets the name of the sources.

Returns:

name of the sources

Since:

1.0

getCompilerFactory

CompilerFactory getCompilerFactory()

gets the compiler factory that should be used to compile the sources.

Returns:

compiler factory

Since:

1.0

toString

String toString()

returns a string suitable for logging.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string suitable for logging

Since:

1.0