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Class FrontendUtils

java.lang.Object
com.vaadin.flow.server.frontend.FrontendUtils
public class FrontendUtils extends Object

A class for static methods and definitions that might be used in different locations.

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

Since:

2.0

  • Field Details

    • PROJECT_BASEDIR

      public static final String PROJECT_BASEDIR

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    • DEFAULT_NODE_DIR

      public static final String DEFAULT_NODE_DIR

      Default folder for the node related content. It's the base directory for Constants.PACKAGE_JSON and NODE_MODULES. By default it's the project root folder.

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    • NODE_MODULES

      public static final String NODE_MODULES

      Location for the installed node packages. This folder is always considered by node, even though we define extra folders with the NODE_PATH.

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    • FRONTEND

      public static final String FRONTEND

      Default folder used for source and generated folders.

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    • GENERATED

      public static final String GENERATED

      Default folder for client-side generated files inside the project root frontend folder.

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    • DEFAULT_FRONTEND_DIR

      public static final String DEFAULT_FRONTEND_DIR

      Path of the folder containing application frontend source files, it needs to be relative to the DEFAULT_NODE_DIR By default it is /frontend in the project folder.

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    • VITE_CONFIG

      public static final String VITE_CONFIG

      The name of the vite configuration file.

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    • VITE_GENERATED_CONFIG

      public static final String VITE_GENERATED_CONFIG

      The name of the generated vite configuration file.

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    • SERVICE_WORKER_SRC

      public static final String SERVICE_WORKER_SRC

      The name of the service worker source file for InjectManifest method of the workbox plugin.

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    • SERVICE_WORKER_SRC_JS

      public static final String SERVICE_WORKER_SRC_JS

      The JavaScript version of the service worker file, for checking if a user has a JavaScript version of a custom service worker file already.

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    • JAR_RESOURCES_FOLDER

      public static final String JAR_RESOURCES_FOLDER

      The folder inside the 'generated' folder where frontend resources from jars are copied.

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    • JAR_RESOURCES_IMPORT

      public static final String JAR_RESOURCES_IMPORT

      The location where javascript files present in jar resources are copied and can be imported from.

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    • JAR_RESOURCES_IMPORT_FRONTEND_RELATIVE

      public static final String JAR_RESOURCES_IMPORT_FRONTEND_RELATIVE

      The location where javascript files present in jar resources are copied and can be imported from, relative to the frontend folder.

    • DEFAULT_GENERATED_DIR

      public static final String DEFAULT_GENERATED_DIR

      Default folder name for flow generated stuff relative to the InitParameters.BUILD_FOLDER.

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    • IMPORTS_NAME

      public static final String IMPORTS_NAME

      Name of the file that contains application imports, javascript, theme and style annotations. It is always generated in the DEFAULT_GENERATED_DIR folder.

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    • IMPORTS_D_TS_NAME

      public static final String IMPORTS_D_TS_NAME

      The TypeScript definitions for the IMPORTS_NAME file.

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    • THEME_IMPORTS_D_TS_NAME

      public static final String THEME_IMPORTS_D_TS_NAME

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    • THEME_IMPORTS_NAME

      public static final String THEME_IMPORTS_NAME

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    • BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME

      public static final String BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME

      File name of the bootstrap file that is generated in frontend GENERATED folder. The bootstrap file is always executed in a Vaadin app.

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    • WEB_COMPONENT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME

      public static final String WEB_COMPONENT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME

      File name of the web component bootstrap file that is generated in frontend GENERATED folder. The bootstrap file is always executed in an exported web component.

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    • FEATURE_FLAGS_FILE_NAME

      public static final String FEATURE_FLAGS_FILE_NAME

      File name of the feature flags file that is generated in frontend GENERATED folder. The feature flags file contains code to define feature flags as globals that might be used by Vaadin web components or application code.

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    • INDEX_HTML

      public static final String INDEX_HTML

      File name of the index.html in client side.

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    • WEB_COMPONENT_HTML

      public static final String WEB_COMPONENT_HTML

      File name of the web-component.html in client side.

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    • INDEX_TS

      public static final String INDEX_TS

      File name of the index.ts in client side.

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    • INDEX_JS

      public static final String INDEX_JS

      File name of the index.js in client side.

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    • INDEX_TSX

      public static final String INDEX_TSX

      File name of the index.tsx in client side.

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    • VITE_DEVMODE_TS

      public static final String VITE_DEVMODE_TS

      File name of Vite helper used in development mode.

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    • DEFAULT_PROJECT_FRONTEND_GENERATED_DIR

      public static final String DEFAULT_PROJECT_FRONTEND_GENERATED_DIR

      Default generated path for generated frontend files.

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    • FALLBACK_IMPORTS_NAME

      public static final String FALLBACK_IMPORTS_NAME

      Name of the file that contains all application imports, javascript, theme and style annotations which are not discovered by the current scanning strategy (but they are in the project classpath). This file is dynamically imported by the IMPORTS_NAME file. It is always generated in the DEFAULT_GENERATED_DIR folder.

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    • PARAM_GENERATED_DIR

      public static final String PARAM_GENERATED_DIR

      A parameter for overriding the DEFAULT_GENERATED_DIR folder.

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    • PARAM_FRONTEND_DIR

      public static final String PARAM_FRONTEND_DIR

      A parameter for overriding the DEFAULT_FRONTEND_DIR folder.

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    • PARAM_IGNORE_VERSION_CHECKS

      public static final String PARAM_IGNORE_VERSION_CHECKS

      Set to true to ignore node/npm tool version checks.

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    • FRONTEND_FOLDER_ALIAS

      public static final String FRONTEND_FOLDER_ALIAS

      A special prefix used to map imports placed in the DEFAULT_FRONTEND_DIR. e.g. import 'Frontend/foo.js'; references the filefrontend/foo.js.

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    • TOKEN_FILE

      public static final String TOKEN_FILE

      File used to enable npm mode.

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    • CHUNKS

      public static final String CHUNKS

      A key in a Json object for chunks list.

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    • FALLBACK

      public static final String FALLBACK

      A key in a Json object for fallback chunk.

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    • EXPORT_CHUNK

      public static final String EXPORT_CHUNK

      The entry-point key used for the exported bundle.

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    • CSS_IMPORTS

      public static final String CSS_IMPORTS

      A key in a Json object for css imports data.

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    • JS_MODULES

      public static final String JS_MODULES

      A key in a Json object for js modules data.

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    • PARAM_TOKEN_FILE

      public static final String PARAM_TOKEN_FILE

      A parameter informing about the location of the TOKEN_FILE.

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    • DISABLE_CHECK

      public static final String DISABLE_CHECK

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    • YELLOW

      public static final String YELLOW

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    • RED

      public static final String RED

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    • GREEN

      public static final String GREEN

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    • BRIGHT_BLUE

      public static final String BRIGHT_BLUE

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  • Method Details

    • getOsName

      public static String getOsName()

      Get the Operating System name from the os.name system property.

      Returns:

      operating system name

    • isWindows

      public static boolean isWindows()

      Check if the current os is Windows.

      Returns:

      true if windows

    • streamToString

      public static String streamToString(InputStream inputStream)

      Read a stream and copy the content into a String using system line separators for all 'carriage return' characters.

      Parameters:

      inputStream - the input stream

      Returns:

      the string

    • createProcessBuilder

      public static ProcessBuilder createProcessBuilder(List<String> command)

      Creates a process builder for the given list of program and arguments. If the program is defined as an absolute path, then the directory that contains the program is also appended to PATH so that the it can locate related tools.

      Parameters:

      command - a list with the program and arguments

      Returns:

      a configured process builder

    • getIndexHtmlContent

      public static String getIndexHtmlContent(VaadinService service) throws IOException

      Gets the content of the frontend/index.html file which is served by vite in dev-mode and read from classpath in production mode.

      NOTE: In dev mode, the file content is fetched using an http request so that we don't need to have a separate index.html's content watcher. Auto-reloading will work automatically, like other files in the `frontend/` folder.

      Parameters:

      service - the vaadin service

      Returns:

      the content of the index html file as a string, null if not found.

      Throws:

      IOException - on error when reading file

    • getWebComponentHtmlContent

      public static String getWebComponentHtmlContent(VaadinService service) throws IOException

      Gets the content of the frontend/web-component.html file which is served by vite in dev-mode and read from classpath in production mode.

      NOTE: In dev mode, the file content is fetched using an http request so that we don't need to have a separate web-component.html's content watcher. Auto-reloading will work automatically, like other files in the `frontend/` folder.

      Parameters:

      service - the vaadin service

      Returns:

      the content of the web-component.html file as a string, null if not found.

      Throws:

      IOException - on error when reading file

    • getFrontendFileFromDevModeHandler

      public static InputStream getFrontendFileFromDevModeHandler(VaadinService service, String path)

      Get the contents of a frontend file from the running dev server.

      Parameters:

      service - the Vaadin service.

      path - the file path.

      Returns:

      an input stream for reading the file contents; null if there is no such file or the dev server is not running.

    • resolveFrontendPath

      public static File resolveFrontendPath(File projectRoot, String path)

      Looks up the frontend resource at the given path. If the path starts with ./, first look in frontend, then in "jar-resources". If the path does not start with ./, look in node_modules instead.

      Parameters:

      projectRoot - the project root folder.

      path - the file path.

      Returns:

      an existing File , or null if the file doesn't exist.

    • resolveFrontendPath

      public static File resolveFrontendPath(File projectRoot, String path, File frontendDirectory)

      Looks up the fronted resource at the given path. If the path starts with ./, first look in frontend, then in "jar-resources". If the path does not start with ./, look in node_modules instead.

      Parameters:

      projectRoot - the project root folder.

      path - the file path.

      frontendDirectory - the frontend directory.

      Returns:

      an existing File , or null if the file doesn't exist.

    • getJarResourceString

      public static String getJarResourceString(String jarImport)

      Get resource from JAR package.

      Parameters:

      jarImport - jar file to get (no resource folder should be added)

      Returns:

      resource as String or null if not found

    • getJarResourcesFolder

      public static File getJarResourcesFolder(File frontendDirectory)

      Get the front-end resources folder. This is where the contents of JAR dependencies are copied to.

      Parameters:

      frontendDirectory - project's frontend directory

      Returns:

      a File representing a folder with copied resources

    • getProjectFrontendDir

      public static String getProjectFrontendDir(DeploymentConfiguration configuration)

      Get directory where project's frontend files are located.

      Parameters:

      configuration - the current deployment configuration

      Returns:

      DEFAULT_FRONTEND_DIR or value of PARAM_FRONTEND_DIR if it is set.

    • getUnixRelativePath

      public static String getUnixRelativePath(Path source, Path target)

      Get relative path from a source path to a target path in Unix form. All the Windows' path separator will be replaced.

      Parameters:

      source - the source path

      target - the target path

      Returns:

      unix relative path from source to target

    • getUnixPath

      public static String getUnixPath(Path source)

      Get path as a String in Unix form.

      Parameters:

      source - path to get

      Returns:

      path as a String in Unix form.

    • readFallbackChunk

      public static FallbackChunk readFallbackChunk(elemental.json.JsonObject object)

      Read fallback chunk data from a json object.

      Parameters:

      object - json object to read fallback chunk data

      Returns:

      a fallback chunk data

    • getVersion

      protected static FrontendVersion getVersion(String tool, List<String> versionCommand) throws FrontendUtils.UnknownVersionException

      Throws:

      FrontendUtils.UnknownVersionException

    • executeCommand

      public static String executeCommand(List<String> command) throws FrontendUtils.CommandExecutionException

      Executes a given command as a native process.

      Parameters:

      command - the command to be executed and it's arguments.

      Returns:

      process output string.

      Throws:

      FrontendUtils.CommandExecutionException - if the process completes exceptionally.

    • parseFrontendVersion

      public static FrontendVersion parseFrontendVersion(String versionString) throws IOException

      Parse the version number of node/npm from version output string.

      Parameters:

      versionString - string containing version output, typically produced by tool --version

      Returns:

      FrontendVersion of versionString

      Throws:

      IOException - if parsing fails

    • getVaadinHomeDirectory

      public static File getVaadinHomeDirectory()

      Gets vaadin home directory (".vaadin" folder in the user home dir).

      The directory is created if it's doesn't exist.

      Returns:

      a vaadin home directory

    • commandToString

      public static String commandToString(String baseDir, List<String> command)

      Pretty prints a command line order. It split in lines adapting to 80 columns, and allowing copy and paste in console. It also removes the current directory to avoid security issues in log files.

      Parameters:

      baseDir - the current directory

      command - the command and it's arguments

      Returns:

      the string for printing in logs

    • getPackageVersionFromJson

      public static FrontendVersion getPackageVersionFromJson(elemental.json.JsonObject sourceJson, String pkg, String versionOrigin)

      Tries to parse the given package's frontend version or if it doesn't exist, returns null. In case the value cannot be parsed, logs an error and returns null.

      Parameters:

      sourceJson - json object that has the package

      pkg - the package name

      versionOrigin - origin of the version (like a file), used in error message

      Returns:

      the frontend version the package or null

    • console

      public static void console(String format, Object message)

      Intentionally send to console instead to log, useful when executing external processes.

      Parameters:

      format - Format of the line to send to console, it must contain a `%s` outlet for the message

      message - the string to show

    • deleteNodeModules

      public static void deleteNodeModules(File nodeModules) throws IOException

      Try to remove the node_modules directory, if it exists inside the given base directory. Note that pnpm uses symlinks internally, so delete utilities that follow symlinks when deleting and/or modifying permissions may not work as intended.

      Parameters:

      nodeModules - the node_modules directory

      Throws:

      IOException - on failure to delete any one file, or if the directory name is not node_modules

    • deleteDirectory

      public static void deleteDirectory(File directory) throws IOException

      Recursively delete given directory and contents.

      Will not delete contents of symlink or junction directories, only the link file.

      Parameters:

      directory - directory to delete

      Throws:

      IOException - on failure to delete or read any one file

    • getFrontendServletPath

      public static String getFrontendServletPath(jakarta.servlet.ServletContext servletContext)

      Gets the servlet path (excluding the context path) for the servlet used for serving the VAADIN frontend bundle.

      Returns:

      the path to the servlet used for the frontend bundle. Empty for a /* mapping, otherwise always starts with a slash but never ends with a slash

    • findBundleFile

      public static URL findBundleFile(File projectDir, String filename) throws IOException

      Finds the given file inside the express mode development bundle that is used.

      Parameters:

      projectDir - the project root folder

      filename - the file name inside the bundle

      Returns:

      a URL referring to the file inside the bundle or null if the file was not found

      Throws:

      IOException

    • getDevBundleFolder

      public static File getDevBundleFolder(File projectDir)

      Get the folder where an application specific bundle is stored.

      Parameters:

      projectDir - the project base directory

      Returns:

      the bundle directory

    • findBundleStatsJson

      public static String findBundleStatsJson(File projectDir) throws IOException

      Get the stats.json for the application specific development bundle.

      Parameters:

      projectDir - the project base directory

      Returns:

      stats.json content or null if not found

      Throws:

      IOException - if an I/O exception occurs.

    • getThemeName

      public static Optional<String> getThemeName(File projectFolder) throws IOException

      Gets the custom theme name if the custom theme is used in the project.

      Should be only used in the development mode.

      Parameters:

      projectFolder - the project root folder

      Returns:

      custom theme name or empty optional if no theme is used

      Throws:

      IOException - if I/O exceptions occur while trying to extract the theme name.

    • getThemeAnnotation

      public static Optional<Theme> getThemeAnnotation(VaadinContext context)

      Gets the theme annotation for the project.

      Parameters:

      context - the Vaadin context

      Returns:

      the theme annotation or an empty optional

    • getThemeJsonInFrontend

      public static Optional<elemental.json.JsonObject> getThemeJsonInFrontend(File frontendFolder, String themeName) throws IOException

      Throws:

      IOException

    • getThemeJsonInFrontend

      public static Optional<elemental.json.JsonObject> getThemeJsonInFrontend(Options options, ThemeDefinition themeDefinition) throws IOException

      Throws:

      IOException

    • getParentThemeNameInFrontend

      public static Optional<String> getParentThemeNameInFrontend(File frontendFolder, elemental.json.JsonObject themeJson)
    • getParentThemeNameInFrontend

      public static Optional<String> getParentThemeNameInFrontend(File frontendFolder, String projectCustomThemeName) throws IOException

      Throws:

      IOException