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

package org.apache.archiva.repository;

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import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Represents a managed repository, that is readable and writable.
 */
public interface ManagedRepository extends Repository {

    /**
     * Returns the interface to access the contents of this repository.
     *
     * @return The repository content.
     */
    ManagedRepositoryContent getContent();

    /**
     * Returns true, if repeated deployments of the same artifact with the same version throws exceptions.
     * @return
     */
    boolean blocksRedeployments();

    /**
     * Returns the release schemes that are active by this repository. E.g. for maven repositories
     * this may either be a release repository, a snapshot repository or a combined repository.
     * @return
     */
    Set<ReleaseScheme> getActiveReleaseSchemes();


    /**
     * Returns the request info object, which you can use for gathering information from the web request path.
     * @return Instance of a request info object that corresponds to this repository
     */
    RepositoryRequestInfo getRequestInfo();

}