1 package org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata;
2
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21
22 import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
23 import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
24 import org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.ArtifactVersion;
25
26 import java.util.List;
27
28 /**
29 * Provides some metadata operations, like querying the remote repository for a list of versions available for an
30 * artifact.
31 *
32 * @author <a href="mailto:jason@maven.org">Jason van Zyl </a>
33 * @version $Id: ArtifactMetadataSource.java 688932 2008-08-26 01:24:27Z jdcasey $
34 */
35 public interface ArtifactMetadataSource
36 {
37 String ROLE = ArtifactMetadataSource.class.getName();
38
39 ResolutionGroup retrieve( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, List remoteRepositories )
40 throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException;
41
42 /**
43 * Resolve all relocations in the POM for this artifact, and return the new artifact coordinate.
44 */
45 Artifact retrieveRelocatedArtifact( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, List remoteRepositories )
46 throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException;
47
48 /**
49 * Get a list of available versions for an artifact in the remote repository
50 *
51 * @param artifact artifact we are interested in. Only <code>groupid</code> and <code>artifactId</code>
52 * are needed, for instance the following code will work
53 * <code>artifactFactory.createProjectArtifact( "org.apache.maven", "maven", "" )</code>
54 * @param localRepository local repository
55 * @param remoteRepositories remote repositories, {@link List} $lt; {@link ArtifactRepository} >
56 * @return {@link List} $lt; {@link ArtifactVersion} >
57 * @throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException in case of error while retrieving repository metadata from the repository.
58 */
59 List retrieveAvailableVersions( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, List remoteRepositories )
60 throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException;
61 }