Package org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata

Interface ArtifactMetadataSource

public interface ArtifactMetadataSource

Provides some metadata operations, like querying the remote repository for a list of versions available for an artifact.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Jason van Zyl

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static java.lang.String	ROLE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ResolutionGroup	retrieve(Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, java.util.List remoteRepositories)
java.util.List	retrieveAvailableVersions(Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, java.util.List remoteRepositories)	Get a list of available versions for an artifact in the remote repository
Artifact	retrieveRelocatedArtifact(Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository, java.util.List remoteRepositories)	Resolve all relocations in the POM for this artifact, and return the new artifact coordinate.

Field Detail

ROLE

static final java.lang.String ROLE

Method Detail

retrieve

ResolutionGroup retrieve(Artifact artifact,
                         ArtifactRepository localRepository,
                         java.util.List remoteRepositories)
                  throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException

Throws:

ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException

retrieveRelocatedArtifact

Artifact retrieveRelocatedArtifact(Artifact artifact,
                                   ArtifactRepository localRepository,
                                   java.util.List remoteRepositories)
                            throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException

Resolve all relocations in the POM for this artifact, and return the new artifact coordinate.

Throws:

ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException

retrieveAvailableVersions

java.util.List retrieveAvailableVersions(Artifact artifact,
                                         ArtifactRepository localRepository,
                                         java.util.List remoteRepositories)
                                  throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException

Get a list of available versions for an artifact in the remote repository

Parameters:

artifact - artifact we are interested in. Only groupid and artifactId are needed, for instance the following code will work artifactFactory.createProjectArtifact( "org.apache.maven", "maven", "" )

localRepository - local repository

remoteRepositories - remote repositories, List $lt; ArtifactRepository >

Returns:

List $lt; ArtifactVersion >

Throws:

ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException - in case of error while retrieving repository metadata from the repository.