trunk/oak-core-spi/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/namepath/PathMapper.java

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package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.namepath;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
import org.osgi.annotation.versioning.ProviderType;

/**
 * {@code PathMapper} instances provide methods for mapping paths from their JCR
 * string representation to their Oak representation and vice versa.
 *
 * The Oak representation of a path consists of a forward slash followed by the
 * names of the respective items in the {@link org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.api.Tree}
 * separated by forward slashes.
 */
@ProviderType
public interface PathMapper {

    /**
     * Returns the Oak path for the given JCR path, or {@code null} if no
     * such mapping exists because the given JCR path contains a name element
     * with an unknown namespace URI or prefix, or is otherwise invalid.
     *
     * @param jcrPath JCR path
     * @return Oak path, or {@code null}
     */
    @Nullable
    String getOakPath(String jcrPath);

    /**
     * Returns the JCR path for the given Oak path. The given path is
     * expected to have come from a valid Oak repository that contains
     * only valid paths whose name elements only use proper namespace
     * mappings. If that's not the case, either a programming error or
     * a repository corruption has occurred and an appropriate unchecked
     * exception gets thrown.
     *
     * @param oakPath Oak path
     * @return JCR path
     */
    @NotNull
    String getJcrPath(String oakPath);

}