mercury-1.0.0-alpha-2/mercury-external/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/mercury/builder/api/MetadataReader.java

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package org.apache.maven.mercury.builder.api;

import org.apache.maven.mercury.artifact.ArtifactBasicMetadata;

/**
 * This interface implementation is supplied to MetadataProcessor to simplify it's access to remote repositories
 *
 *
 * @author Oleg Gusakov
 * @version $Id$
 *
 */
public interface MetadataReader
{
  /**
   * read content pointed by bmd. It will return POM bytes regardless of actual bmd type
   * 
   * @param bmd coordinates
   * @param classifier - replaces the getClassifier() from bmd if not null
   * @param type - replaces the getType() from bmd if not null
   * @return
   * @throws MetadataReaderException
   * @throws RepositoryException 
   */
  public byte [] readRawData( ArtifactBasicMetadata bmd, String classifier, String type )
  throws MetadataReaderException;

  /**
   * read metadata for the artifact, pointed by bmd. It will return POM bytes regardless of actual bmd type
   * 
   * @param bmd
   * @return
   * @throws MetadataReaderException
   */
  public byte [] readMetadata( ArtifactBasicMetadata bmd )
  throws MetadataReaderException;
}