net.sf.taverna.update.profile
Class ProfileVersions

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.taverna.update.profile.ProfileVersions

public class ProfileVersions
extends java.lang.Object

Reads a profile list from an XML document to retreive a list of ProfileVersion XML should be of the form: 1.5.0 A Profile http://url to profile

Author:

Stuart Owen

Constructor Summary

ProfileVersions()

Method Summary

static java.util.List<ProfileVersion>	getProfileVersions(java.io.InputStream profileListStream, java.net.URL sourceURL) Provides a list of available profiles read from a stream, provided by an external xml source (usually http hosted).
static java.util.List<ProfileVersion>	getProfileVersions(java.net.URL profileListUrl)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ProfileVersions

public ProfileVersions()

Method Detail

getProfileVersions

public static java.util.List<ProfileVersion> getProfileVersions(java.net.URL profileListUrl)

getProfileVersions

public static java.util.List<ProfileVersion> getProfileVersions(java.io.InputStream profileListStream,
                                                                java.net.URL sourceURL)

Provides a list of available profiles read from a stream, provided by an external xml source (usually http hosted). If the sourceURL is not null then this can be used to resolve the partial URL's of profile locations based on the assumption that they are hosted at the same place. The list is ordered according to the version number, ascending

Parameters:

profileListStream - the stream to the profile versions XML document

sourceURL - if not null, then this URL is used to resolve partial URL's within the profile version XML document to their full path

Returns: