maven-scm-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/scm/manager/ScmManager.java

package org.apache.maven.scm.manager;

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import org.apache.maven.scm.provider.ScmProvider;
import org.apache.maven.scm.repository.ScmRepository;
import org.apache.maven.scm.repository.ScmRepositoryException;
import org.apache.maven.scm.repository.UnknownRepositoryStructure;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:trygvis@inamo.no">Trygve Laugst&oslash;l</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:evenisse@apache.org">Emmanuel Venisse</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface ScmManager
{
    String ROLE = ScmManager.class.getName();

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Repository
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    ScmRepository makeScmRepository( String scmUrl )
        throws ScmRepositoryException, NoSuchScmProviderException;

    ScmRepository makeProviderScmRepository( String providerType, File path )
        throws ScmRepositoryException, UnknownRepositoryStructure, NoSuchScmProviderException;

    /**
     * Validate a SCM URL
     * @param scmUrl the SCM URL to validate
     * @return <code>List</code> of <code>String</code> objects with the messages returned by the SCM provider
     */
    List validateScmRepository( String scmUrl );

    ScmProvider getProviderByUrl( String scmUrl )
        throws ScmRepositoryException, NoSuchScmProviderException;

    ScmProvider getProviderByType( String providerType )
        throws NoSuchScmProviderException;

    ScmProvider getProviderByRepository( ScmRepository repository )
        throws NoSuchScmProviderException;
}