archiva/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/repository/Repository.java

package org.apache.archiva.repository;

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import org.apache.archiva.indexer.ArchivaIndexingContext;
import org.apache.archiva.repository.storage.RepositoryStorage;
import org.apache.archiva.repository.features.RepositoryFeature;

import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 *
 * Base interface for repositories.
 *
 * Created by Martin Stockhammer on 21.09.17.
 */
public interface Repository extends RepositoryEventHandler, RepositoryStorage {

    /**
     * Return the identifier of the repository. Repository identifier should be unique at least
     * for the same type.
     * @return The identifier.
     */
    String getId();

    /**
     * This is the display name of the repository. This string is presented in the user interface.
     *
     * @return The display name of the repository
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * Returns the name in the given locale.
     * @param locale
     * @return
     */
    String getName(Locale locale);

    /**
     * Returns a description of this repository.
     * @return The description.
     */
    String getDescription();

    /**
     * Returns the description for the given locale.
     * @param locale
     * @return
     */
    String getDescription(Locale locale);

    /**
     * This identifies the type of repository. Archiva does only support certain types of repositories.
     *
     * @return A unique identifier for the repository type.
     */
    RepositoryType getType();


    /**
     * Returns the location of this repository. For local repositories this might be a file URI, for
     * remote repositories a http URL or some very repository specific schemes.
     * Each repository has only one unique location.
     *
     * @return The repository location.
     */
    URI getLocation();


    /**
     * Returns the local path that this repository uses, if it stores data locally. You should keep in
     * mind, that repository implementations may not store any data in this directory. E.g. if the
     * repository data is handled by a database. So the content of this directory is very implementation
     * specific. Users of this directory must know about the repository file layout if they use this
     * path.
     *
     * Repository implementations should always return a valid path, even if there is no locally stored data.
     *
     * Some extensions may use the path to store their own repository specific data, e.g. statistics, metadata,...
     *
     * @return the filesystem path to the repository.
     */
    Path getLocalPath();


    /**
     * A repository may allow additional locations that can be used, if the primary location is not available.
     * @return
     */
    Set<URI> getFailoverLocations();

    /**
     * True, if this repository is scanned regularly.
     */
    boolean isScanned();

    /**
     * Returns the definition, when the repository jobs are executed.
     * This must return a valid a cron string.
     *
     * @See http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/api/2.2.1/org/quartz/CronExpression.html
     *
     * @return
     */
    String getSchedulingDefinition();

    /**
     * Returns true, if this repository has a index available
     * @return
     */
    boolean hasIndex();

    /**
     * Returns a layout definition. The returned string may be implementation specific and is not
     * standardized.
     *
     * @return
     */
    String getLayout();


    /**
     * Returns the capabilities of the repository implementation.
     * @return
     */
    RepositoryCapabilities getCapabilities();


    /**
     * Extension method that allows to provide different features that are not supported by all
     * repository types.
     *
     * @param clazz The feature class that is requested
     * @param <T> This is the class of the feature
     * @return The feature implementation for this repository instance, if it is supported
     * @throws UnsupportedFeatureException if the feature is not supported by this repository type
     */
    <T extends RepositoryFeature<T>> RepositoryFeature<T> getFeature(Class<T> clazz) throws UnsupportedFeatureException;


    /**
     * Returns true, if the requested feature is supported by this repository.
     *
     * @param clazz The requested feature class
     * @param <T> The requested feature class
     * @return True, if the feature is supported, otherwise false.
     */
    <T extends RepositoryFeature<T>> boolean supportsFeature(Class<T> clazz);


    /**
     * Returns a indexing context.
     * @return
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
     */
    ArchivaIndexingContext getIndexingContext();

    /**
     * Closes all resources that are opened by this repository.
     */
    void close();


}