bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/eclipseAdaptor/src/org/eclipse/osgi/service/urlconversion/URLConverter.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
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 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
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 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.osgi.service.urlconversion;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * The interface of the service that allows bundleresource or bundleentry
 * URLs to be converted to native file URLs on the local file system.
 */
public interface URLConverter {
	/**
	 * Converts a URL that uses a protocol of bundleentry or bundleresource into
	 * a URL that uses the file protocol.  The contents of the URL may be extracted
	 * into a cache on the file system in order to get a file URL.
	 * @param url The bundleentry or bundleresource URL to convert into a file URL.
	 * @return The converted file URL or the original URL passed in if it is not
	 * a bundleentry or bundleresource URL.
	 * @throws IOException if an error occurs during the conversion.
	 */
	public URL convertToFileURL(URL url) throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Converts a URL that uses a protocol of bundleentry or bundleresource into
	 * a URL that uses a local java protocol (file, jar etc).
	 * @param url The bundleentry or bundleresource URL to convert into a local URL.
	 * @return The converted file URL or the original URL passed in if it is not
	 * a bundleentry or bundleresource URL.
	 * @throws IOException if an error occurs during the conversion.
	 */
	public URL convertToLocalURL(URL url) throws IOException;
}