[birt-dev] FW: API Change Request for IFileLocator

["Qi Liang" <qliang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,

 

Wei’s suggestion is accepted. IFileLocator will be renamed to IResourceLocator and the corresponding method is renamed from “File” to “Resource”. The updated Change Request is attached, and change will be performed today.

 

Thanks!

 

Qi Liang

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wei Yan
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:48 PM
To: Qi Liang; #Birt Development
Subject: RE: API Change Request for IFileLocator

 

That’s fine for file based storage. If you consider about other storage such as archives (JAR/ZIP), it has some limitations.

 

Suggestions:

 

1)    change the name from IFileLocator to IResourceLocator

 

2)    change the API findFile to:

URL findResource(ReportDesignHandle designHandle, String resourceName, int type)

 

Here it returns a URL instead of a String, the user can use URL.openStream to get the resource content. It is possible for us to support any storage.

 

 

-Wei Yan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Qi Liang
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:37 PM
To: #Birt Development
Subject: API Change Request for IFileLocator

 

Hi,all,

 

The attached is the API change request for IFileLocator. If no response by the end of Jul. 19 (Shanghai Time), I will perform the check-in.

 

Thanks!

 

Qi Liang

Attachment: API CR IFileLocator.doc
Description: API CR IFileLocator.doc