com.vaadin.flow.server.frontend

Class FrontendWebComponentGenerator

java.lang.Object

com.vaadin.flow.server.frontend.FrontendWebComponentGenerator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class FrontendWebComponentGenerator
extends Object
implements Serializable

Generates embeddable web component files in npm mode, hiding the complexity caused by using a different class loader. Uses WebComponentModulesWriter to generate web component modules files from WebComponentExporter or WebComponentExporterFactory implementations found by ClassFinder.

For internal use only. May be renamed or removed in a future release.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Vaadin Ltd.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FrontendWebComponentGenerator(ClassFinder finder) Creates a new instances and stores the finder to be used for locating WebComponentModulesWriter and WebComponentExporter/WebComponentExporterFactory classes.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Set<File>	generateWebComponents(File outputDirectory) Collects WebComponentModulesWriter class and classes that extend WebComponentExporter/WebComponentExporterFactory using finder.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FrontendWebComponentGenerator

public FrontendWebComponentGenerator(ClassFinder finder)

Creates a new instances and stores the finder to be used for locating WebComponentModulesWriter and WebComponentExporter/WebComponentExporterFactory classes.

Parameters:

finder - ClassFinder implementation

Method Detail

generateWebComponents

public Set<File> generateWebComponents(File outputDirectory)

Collects WebComponentModulesWriter class and classes that extend WebComponentExporter/WebComponentExporterFactory using finder. Generates web component modules and places the into the outputDirectory.

Parameters:

outputDirectory - target directory for the web component module files

Returns:

generated files

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if finder cannot locate required classes