org.zkoss.zk.ui.util

Interface ThemeProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardThemeProvider, StandardThemeProvider, StandardThemeProvider, StandardThemeProvider, TabletThemeProvider

public interface ThemeProvider

Used to replace the theme defined in the language definitions (lang.xml and lang-addon.xml), ThemeURIHandler and the configuration (the theme-uri elements in web.xml).

When a desktop is about to be rendered, getThemeURIs(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.util.List<java.lang.Object>) will be called to allow developer to rename, add or remove CSS/WCS files.

When loading each WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file (excluding CSS files), beforeWCS(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.lang.String) will be called to allow developer to rename or remove the WCS file.

When a WCS file is about to load the CSS file of a widget, beforeWidgetCSS(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.lang.String) will be called to allow developer to rename or remove the CSS file associated with a widget.

To allow the client to cache the WCS file, you can inject a special fragment into the URI of the WCS file such that a different URI represents a different theme. To inject, you can use @{link Aide#injectURI} when preprocessing URIs in getThemeURIs(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.util.List<java.lang.Object>). Therefore, we can retrieve the injected fragment in beforeWCS(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.lang.String) by use of ThemeProvider.Aide.decodeURI(java.lang.String).

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

tomyeh

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	ThemeProvider.Aide Utilities to help the implementation of ThemeProvider to manipulate the URI such that it is able to use a different URI for a different theme.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	beforeWCS(Execution exec, java.lang.String uri) Called when a WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file is about to be loaded.
java.lang.String	beforeWidgetCSS(Execution exec, java.lang.String uri) Called when a WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file is about to load the CSS file associated with a widget.
java.util.Collection<java.lang.Object>	getThemeURIs(Execution exec, java.util.List<java.lang.Object> uris) Returns a list of the theme's URIs of the specified execution, or null if no theme shall be generated.
int	getWCSCacheControl(Execution exec, java.lang.String uri) Returns the number of hours that the specified WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file won't be changed.

Method Detail

getThemeURIs

java.util.Collection<java.lang.Object> getThemeURIs(Execution exec,
                                                    java.util.List<java.lang.Object> uris)

Returns a list of the theme's URIs of the specified execution, or null if no theme shall be generated. Each item could be an instance of either String or StyleSheet. If you want to specify the media attribute, use StyleSheet.

It is called when a desktop is about to be rendered. It is called only once for each desktop.

Notice that StyleSheet is allowed since 5.0.3.

Parameters:

exec - the current execution (never null), where you can retrieve the desktop, request and response. Note: if your Web application supports multiple devices, you have to check Desktop.getDevice().

uris - the default set of theme's URIs, i.e., the themes defined in language definitions (lang.xml and lang-addon.xml) and the configuration (the theme-uri elements in web.xml). Each URI is an instance of of either String or StyleSheet. Notice that, unless it is customized by application specific lang-addon, all URIs are, by default, String instances.

Returns:

the collection of the theme's URIs that the current desktop shall use. Each URI is an instance of of either String or StyleSheet.

getWCSCacheControl

int getWCSCacheControl(Execution exec,
                       java.lang.String uri)

Returns the number of hours that the specified WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file won't be changed. In other words, the client is allowed to cache the file until the returned hours expires.

Parameters:

uri - the URI of the WCS file, e.g., ~./zul/css/zk.wcs

Returns:

number of hours that the WCS file is allowed to cache. If it is never changed until next ZK upgrade, you could return 8760 (the default if ThemeProvider is not specified). If you don't want the client to cache, return a non-positive number.

beforeWCS

java.lang.String beforeWCS(Execution exec,
                           java.lang.String uri)

Called when a WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file is about to be loaded. This method then returns the real URI of the WCS file to load. If no need to change, just return the uri parameter.

If you want to change the font size, you can set the attributes of the execution accordingly as follows.

fontSizeM

The default font size. Default: 12px

fontSizeMS

The font size for menus. Default: 11px

fontSizeS

The font size for smaller fonts, such as toolbar. Default: 11px

fontSizeXS

The font size for extreme small fonts. Default 10px

fontFamilyT

The font family for titles. Default: arial, sans-serif

fontFamilyC

The font family for content. Default: arial, sans-serif

For example,

String beforeWCS(Execution exec, String uri) {
  exec.setAttribute("fontSizeM", "15px");
  return uri;
}

Parameters:

exec - the current execution (never null), where you can retrieve the request and response. However, unlike getThemeURIs(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.util.List<java.lang.Object>), the desktop might not be available when this method is called.

uri - the URI of the WCS file, e.g., ~./zul/css/zk.wcs

Returns:

the real URI of the WCS file to load. If null is returned, the WCS file is ignored.

Since:

5.0.0

beforeWidgetCSS

java.lang.String beforeWidgetCSS(Execution exec,
                                 java.lang.String uri)

Called when a WCS (Widget CSS descriptor) file is about to load the CSS file associated with a widget. This method then returns the real URI of the WCS file to load. If no need to change, just return the uri parameter.

This method is usually overridden to load the CSS files from a different directory. For example,

String beforeWidgetCSS(Execution exec, String uri) {
  return uri.startsWith("~./") ? "~./foo/" + uri.substring(3): uri;
}

Parameters:

exec - the current execution (never null), where you can retrieve the request ad response. However, unlike getThemeURIs(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Execution, java.util.List<java.lang.Object>), the desktop might not be available when this method is called.

uri - the URI of the CSS file associated with a widget, e.g., ~./js/zul/wgt/css/a.css.dsp

Returns:

the real URI of the CSS file to load If null is returned, the CSS file is ignored.

Since:

5.0.0