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| * Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.spi.p2.artifact.repository; |
| |
| import java.net.URL; |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor; |
| import org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.artifact.repository.IArtifactRepository; |
| import org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.core.ProvisionException; |
| |
| public interface IArtifactRepositoryFactory { |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates and returns a new empty artifact repository of the given type at |
| * the given location. |
| * |
| * @param location the location for the new repository |
| * @param name the name of the new repository |
| * @param type the kind of repository to create |
| * @return the newly created repository |
| * @throws ProvisionException if the repository could not be created. Reasons include: |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>The repository type is unknown.</li> |
| * <li>There was an error writing to the given repository location.</li> |
| * <li>A repository already exists at that location.</li> |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| public IArtifactRepository create(URL location, String name, String type) throws ProvisionException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Loads the repository at the given location. The location is expected to contain |
| * data that describes a valid artifact repository of a known type. If this manager |
| * already knows a repository at the given location then that repository is returned. |
| * |
| * @param location the location in which to look for a repository description |
| * @param monitor a progress monitor, or <code>null</code> if progress |
| * reporting is not desired |
| * @return a repository object for the given location |
| * @throws ProvisionException if the repository could not be created. Reasons include: |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>There is no existing repository at that location.</li> |
| * <li>The repository at that location could not be read.</li> |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| public IArtifactRepository load(URL location, IProgressMonitor monitor) throws ProvisionException; |
| } |