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

package org.apache.archiva.repository.content;

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import org.apache.archiva.repository.UnsupportedRepositoryTypeException;
import org.apache.archiva.repository.storage.StorageAsset;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 *
 * Each artifact is attached to exactly one version.
 *
 * Implementations must provide proper hash and equals methods.
 *
 * @author Martin Stockhammer <martin_s@apache.org>
 */
public interface Version extends ContentItem
{
    /**
     * Returns the version string.
     *
     * @return the version string
     */
    String getVersion();

    /**
     * Returns the local representation of the version. For maven this is a directory.
     * It is implementation dependent, what exactly this asset points to.
     *
     * @return the local storage representation of the version
     */
    StorageAsset getAsset();

    /**
     * Each version is attached to a project.
     * @return the attached project
     */
    Project getProject();


}