org.springframework.hateoas.core
Class AbstractEntityLinks

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.hateoas.core.AbstractEntityLinks

All Implemented Interfaces:

EntityLinks, org.springframework.plugin.core.Plugin<Class<?>>

Direct Known Subclasses:

ControllerEntityLinks, DelegatingEntityLinks

public abstract class AbstractEntityLinks
extends Object
implements EntityLinks

Implementation base class to delegate the higher level methods of EntityLinks by delegating to the more fine grained ones to reduce the implementation effort for actual implementation classes.

Author:

Oliver Gierke

Constructor Summary

AbstractEntityLinks()

Method Summary

LinkBuilder	linkForSingleResource(Class<?> type, Object id) Returns a LinkBuilder able to create links to the controller managing the given entity type and id.
LinkBuilder	linkForSingleResource(Identifiable<?> entity) Returns a LinkBuilder able to create links to the controller managing the given entity.
Link	linkToSingleResource(Identifiable<?> entity) Creates a Link pointing to single resource backing the given entity.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.hateoas.EntityLinks

linkFor, linkFor, linkToCollectionResource, linkToSingleResource

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.plugin.core.Plugin

supports

Constructor Detail

AbstractEntityLinks

public AbstractEntityLinks()

Method Detail

linkToSingleResource

public Link linkToSingleResource(Identifiable<?> entity)

Description copied from interface: EntityLinks

Creates a Link pointing to single resource backing the given entity. The relation type of the link will be determined by the implementation class and should be defaulted to Link.REL_SELF.

Specified by:

linkToSingleResource in interface EntityLinks

Parameters:

entity - the entity type to point to, must not be null.

Returns:

the Link pointing to the resource exposed for the given entity. Will never be null.

linkForSingleResource

public LinkBuilder linkForSingleResource(Class<?> type,
                                         Object id)

Description copied from interface: EntityLinks

Returns a LinkBuilder able to create links to the controller managing the given entity type and id. Implementations will know about the URI structure being used to expose single-resource URIs.

Specified by:

linkForSingleResource in interface EntityLinks

Parameters:

type - the entity type to point to, must not be null.

id - the id of the object of the handed type, Identifiables will be unwrapped.

Returns:

the LinkBuilder pointing to the single resource identified by the given type and id. Will never be null.

linkForSingleResource

public LinkBuilder linkForSingleResource(Identifiable<?> entity)

Description copied from interface: EntityLinks

Returns a LinkBuilder able to create links to the controller managing the given entity.

Specified by:

linkForSingleResource in interface EntityLinks

Parameters:

entity - the entity type to point to, must not be null.

Returns:

the LinkBuilder pointing the given entity. Will never be null.

See Also:

EntityLinks.linkForSingleResource(Class, Object)