com.mortbay.Servlets
Interface ServletDispatchHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:
DispatchServlet, PropertyTreeEditor.EditorDispatcher

public interface ServletDispatchHandler

Interface for handling unmatched path methods.

A class should implement this interface if it wishes to handle unmatched methods to be called by the ServletDispatch.dispatch method.

Version:
$Version: $
Author:
Matthew Watson (watsonm)
See Also:
com.mortbay.Util.ServletDispatch

Method Summary
 java.lang.Object defaultDispatch(java.lang.String method, ServletDispatch dispatch, java.lang.Object context, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res)
          Handle an unmatched method
 

Method Detail

defaultDispatch

public java.lang.Object defaultDispatch(java.lang.String method,
                                        ServletDispatch dispatch,
                                        java.lang.Object context,
                                        javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req,
                                        javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res)
                                 throws java.lang.Exception
Handle an unmatched method
Parameters:
method - The name of the unmatched method - this will be null if there was no path left to handle
dispatch - The dispatch object
context -  
req -  
res -  
Returns:
non-null if the request was handled