001/* 
002 * Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others.
003 *
004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
008 *
009 * Contributors:
010 *     bstefanescu
011 *
012 * $Id$
013 */
014
015package org.nuxeo.ecm.platform.rendering.api;
016
017import java.io.File;
018import java.net.URL;
019
020/**
021 * Resource locators are used to resolve resource names to resource URLs
022 *
023 * @author <a href="mailto:bs@nuxeo.com">Bogdan Stefanescu</a>
024 */
025public interface ResourceLocator {
026
027    /**
028     * Gets an URL resource given a key
029     *
030     * @param key the resource key
031     * @return the resource URL or null if no such result was found
032     */
033    URL getResourceURL(String key);
034
035    /**
036     * Get a file resource given a key
037     *
038     * @param key
039     * @return
040     */
041    File getResourceFile(String key);
042
043}