Mapper

public class Mapper

Fields

routeList

ArrayList<Route> routeList

Constructors

Mapper

public Mapper()

The constructor will be used only by the framework. The application using this library has no direct use by initializing a Mapper object.

Methods

connect

public void connect(String url, String[] methods, Object handler, String action)

Connect a URL to the framework’s url router.

Parameters:

• url – The url path.
• methods – Array of method names that apply on this url
• handler – Object of the handler class.
• action – The name of a public method defined in the handler class that processes the functionality for this url.

connect

public void connect(String url, String[] methods, Object handler, String action, Permissions permissions)

Connect a URL to the framework’s url router.

Parameters:

• url – The url path.
• methods – Array of method names that apply on this url
• handler – Object of the handler class.
• action – The name of a public method defined in the handler class that processes the functionality for this url.
• permissions – Permissions object for this URL

See also: Permissions

match

public RouteMatch match(HttpRequest req)

This method is used by the framework. The application has no direct use in calling this method.

Parameters:

• req – The http request object

subMapper

public SubMapper subMapper(Object handler)

Returns a new sub mapper object. This can avoid adding handler to every mapper connect call.

Parameters:

• handler – Object of the handler class which has the action methods

Returns:

SubMapper Object to a submapper through which one can connect urls with inputting the handler object on every connect call.