Package org.springframework.hateoas.server.core

Class AbstractEntityLinks

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.hateoas.server.core.AbstractEntityLinks

All Implemented Interfaces:

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

Direct Known Subclasses:

ControllerEntityLinks

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

Constructors

Constructor	Description
AbstractEntityLinks()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
LinkBuilder	linkForItemResource(Class<?> type, Object id)	Returns a LinkBuilder able to create links to the controller managing the given entity type and id.

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.server.EntityLinks

forType, forType, linkFor, linkFor, linkForItemResource, linkToCollectionResource, linkToItemResource, linkToItemResource

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

supports

Constructor Details

AbstractEntityLinks

public AbstractEntityLinks()

Method Details

linkForItemResource

public LinkBuilder linkForItemResource(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 item-resource URIs.

Specified by:

linkForItemResource 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, must not be null.

Returns:

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