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/**

* Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

*

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.remote.view;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.HashSet;

import java.util.Locale;

import java.util.Set;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;

import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.util.AntPathMatcher;

import org.springframework.util.Assert;

import org.springframework.util.PathMatcher;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.View;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver;

/**

 * Resolves views by using a {@link PathMatcher} to match the view name to the bean names.

 *

 * By default the {@link AntPathMatcher} is used which supports Ant-style path patterns.

 * The mapping matches views using the following rules:

 * <ul>

 *   <li>? matches one character

 *   <li>* matches zero or more characters

 *   <li>** matches zero or more 'directories' in a path

 *  </ul>

 * @author ben.clark

 */

public class PatternViewResolver extends XmlViewResolver {

	private final Set<String> viewSet = new HashSet<String>();

	private PathMatcher pathMatcher = new AntPathMatcher();

	public void setPathMatcher(PathMatcher pathMatcher) {

		Assert.notNull(pathMatcher, "PathMatcher must not be null");

		this.pathMatcher = pathMatcher;

	}

	public PathMatcher getPathMatcher() {

		return this.pathMatcher;

	}

	@Override

	public View resolveViewName(String viewName, Locale locale)  throws Exception {

		// Direct match?

		if (this.viewSet.contains(viewName)) {

			return super.resolveViewName(viewName, locale);

		}

		// Pattern match?

		String bestPathMatch = null;

		for (String registeredPath : this.viewSet) {

			if (getPathMatcher().match(registeredPath, viewName) &&

					(bestPathMatch == null || bestPathMatch.length() < registeredPath.length())) {

				bestPathMatch = registeredPath;

			}

		}

		if (bestPathMatch != null) {

			return super.resolveViewName(bestPathMatch, locale);

		}

		// No view found...

		return null;

	}

	@Override

	 protected synchronized BeanFactory initFactory() throws BeansException {

		AbstractApplicationContext beanFactory = (AbstractApplicationContext)super.initFactory();

		String[] beanDefinitionNames = beanFactory.getBeanDefinitionNames();

		for(String beanDefinitionName : beanDefinitionNames) {

			viewSet.add(beanDefinitionName);

			viewSet.addAll(Arrays.asList(beanFactory.getAliases(beanDefinitionName)));

		}

		return beanFactory;

	}

}