1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 */ 19 package org.apache.maven.plugin.version; 20 21 /** 22 * Resolves a version for a plugin. 23 * 24 * @since 3.0 25 * @author Benjamin Bentmann 26 */ 27 public interface PluginVersionResolver { 28 29 /** 30 * Resolves the version for the specified request. 31 * 32 * @param request The request that holds the details about the plugin and the repositories to consult, must not be 33 * {@code null}. 34 * @return The result of the version resolution, never {@code null}. 35 * @throws PluginVersionResolutionException If the plugin version could not be resolved. 36 */ 37 PluginVersionResult resolve(PluginVersionRequest request) throws PluginVersionResolutionException; 38 }