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package org.apache.jasper;

import java.io.File;

import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;

import org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache;

/**
 * A class to hold all init parameters specific to the JSP engine. 
 *
 * @author Anil K. Vijendran
 * @author Hans Bergsten
 * @author Pierre Delisle
 */
public interface Options {
    /**
     * Are we keeping generated code around?
     */
    public boolean getKeepGenerated();
    
    /**
     * Are we supporting large files?
     */
    public boolean getLargeFile();

    /**
     * Are we supporting HTML mapped servlets?
     */
    public boolean getMappedFile();
    
    
    /**
     * Should errors be sent to client or thrown into stderr?
     */
    public boolean getSendErrorToClient();
 
    /**
     * Should we include debug information in compiled class?
     */
    public boolean getClassDebugInfo();

    /**
     * Class ID for use in the plugin tag when the browser is IE. 
     */
    public String getIeClassId();
    
    /**
     * What is my scratch dir?
     */
    public File getScratchDir();

    /**
     * What classpath should I use while compiling the servlets
     * generated from JSP files?
     */
    public String getClassPath();

    /**
     * What compiler plugin should I use to compile the servlets
     * generated from JSP files?
     */
    public Class getJspCompilerPlugin();

    /**
     * Path of the compiler to use for compiling JSP pages.
     */
    public String getJspCompilerPath();
    
    /**
     * The cache for the location of the TLD's
     * for the various tag libraries 'exposed'
     * by the web application.
     * A tag library is 'exposed' either explicitely in 
     * web.xml or implicitely via the uri tag in the TLD 
     * of a taglib deployed in a jar file (WEB-INF/lib).
     *
     * @returns the instance of the TldLocationsCache
     * for the web-application.
     */
    public TldLocationsCache getTldLocationsCache();

    /**
     * Java platform encoding to generate the JSP
     * page servlet.
     */
    public String getJavaEncoding();
}
