Improving repository API

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archiva-modules/metadata/metadata-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/metadata/repository/storage/RepositoryStorage.java b/archiva-modules/metadata/metadata-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/metadata/repository/storage/RepositoryStorage.java
index 6559be1c6..e56311506 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/metadata/metadata-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/metadata/repository/storage/RepositoryStorage.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/metadata/metadata-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/metadata/repository/storage/RepositoryStorage.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.archiva.model.ArtifactReference;
 import org.apache.archiva.policies.ProxyDownloadException;
 import org.apache.archiva.repository.ManagedRepositoryContent;
 import org.apache.archiva.repository.ManagedRepository;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.content.ItemSelector;
 import org.apache.archiva.xml.XMLException;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -75,6 +76,21 @@ public interface RepositoryStorage
         throws ProxyDownloadException;
 
     /**
+     * A relocation capable client will request the POM prior to the artifact, and will then read meta-data and do
+     * client side relocation. A simplier client (like maven 1) will only request the artifact and not use the
+     * metadatas.
+     * <p>
+     * For such clients, archiva does server-side relocation by reading itself the &lt;relocation&gt; element in
+     * metadatas and serving the expected artifact.
+     * @param managedRepository the used managed repository
+     * @param artifact the artifact reference
+     * @throws org.apache.archiva.policies.ProxyDownloadException
+     */
+    ItemSelector applyServerSideRelocation( ManagedRepository managedRepository, ItemSelector selector )
+        throws ProxyDownloadException;
+
+
+    /**
      * add an other method to evaluate real path as when receiving -SNAPSHOT (for maven storage)
      * request redirect to the last build
      * @param requestPath the web uri request