1 package org.apache.maven.repository.metadata; 2 3 /* 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 15 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 16 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 17 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 18 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 19 * under the License. 20 */ 21 22 import java.util.List; 23 24 import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository; 25 26 /** 27 * Provides some metadata operations, like querying the remote repository for a list of versions available for an 28 * artifact. 29 * 30 * @author Jason van Zyl 31 */ 32 public interface MetadataSource 33 { 34 String ROLE = MetadataSource.class.getName(); 35 36 MetadataResolution retrieve( ArtifactMetadata artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, 37 List<ArtifactRepository> remoteRepositories ) 38 throws MetadataRetrievalException; 39 }