bundleplugin/src/main/java/aQute/bnd/service/RepositoryPlugin.java

package aQute.bnd.service;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import aQute.lib.osgi.*;
import aQute.libg.version.*;

public interface RepositoryPlugin {
    /**
     * Return a URL to a matching version of the given bundle.
     * 
     * @param bsn
     *            Bundle-SymbolicName of the searched bundle
     * @param range
     *            Version range for this bundle,"latest" if you only want the
     *            latest, or null when you want all.
     * @return A list of URLs sorted on version, lowest version is at index 0.
     *         null is returned when no files with the given bsn ould be found.
     * @throws Exception
     *             when anything goes wrong
     */
    File[] get(String bsn, String range) throws Exception;
    
    /**
     * Answer if this repository can be used to store files.
     * 
     * @return true if writable
     */
    boolean canWrite();
    
    /**
     * Put a JAR file in the repository.
     * 
     * @param jar
     * @throws Exception
     */
    File  put(Jar jar) throws Exception;
    
    /**
     * Return a list of bsns that are present in the repository.
     * 
     * @param regex if not null, match against the bsn and if matches, return otherwise skip
     * @return A list of bsns that match the regex parameter or all if regex is null
     */
    List<String> list(String regex);
    
    /**
     * Return a list of versions.
     */
    
    List<Version> versions(String bsn);
    
    /**
     * @return The name of the repository
     */
    String getName();

}