[VELOCITY-227] ResourceFactory not extensible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: Engine
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 24758
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charles Morehead
• Created: 18/Nov/03 01:41
• Updated: 21/Aug/08 00:16
• Resolved: 21/Aug/08 00:16

Description

The class org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceFactory provides
no mechanism for allowing sub-classes of Template or ContentResources
to be returned.

Since ResourceManagerImpl makes a call to ResourceFactory.getResource(),
the only way to override the behavior is to subclass ResourceManagerImpl
and cut-paste-then-modify the code for loadResource().

At the very least, moving the ResourceFactory.getResource() call into
a separate, protected method in ResourceManagerImpl would greatly simplify
sub-classing Templates and/or ContentResources.