HtmlClosure.java

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package org.waveprotocol.wave.client.uibuilder;

import org.waveprotocol.wave.client.common.safehtml.SafeHtml;
import org.waveprotocol.wave.client.common.safehtml.SafeHtmlBuilder;

/**
 * Outputs some HTML when invoked. An {@code HTMLClosure} guarantees that the
 * HTML that it outputs is well-formed and balanced (every open tag has a
 * corresponding closing tag).
 * <p>
 * The use of closures, rather than string concatenation, allows HTML structures
 * to be built up modularly in linear time rather than quadratic time.
 *
 */
public interface HtmlClosure {

  /**
   * Outputs HTML to a builder.
   *
   * @param out builder to collect the HTML.
   */
  void outputHtml(SafeHtmlBuilder out);

  /** An empty closure that outputs nothing. */
  HtmlClosure EMPTY = new HtmlClosure() {
    @Override
    public void outputHtml(SafeHtmlBuilder out) {
    }
  };

  /**
   * An HTML closure that outputs a constant string.
   */
  final class Constant {

    // Utility class
    private Constant() {
    }

    public static HtmlClosure of(final SafeHtml html) {
      return new HtmlClosure() {
        @Override
        public void outputHtml(SafeHtmlBuilder out) {
          out.append(html);
        }
      };
    }
  }
}