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package org.apache.sling.settings;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * The <code>SlingSettingsService</code> provides basic Sling settings.
 * - Sling home : If the Sling launchpad is used
 * - Sling Id : A unique id of the installation
 *
 * Run Mode Support
 * A run mode is simply a string like "author", "test", "development",...
 * The server can have a set of active run modes.
 */
public interface SlingSettingsService {

    /**
     * The name of the framework property defining the Sling home directory
     * (value is "sling.home"). This is a Platform file system directory below
     * which all runtime data, such as the Felix bundle archives, logfiles, the
     * repository, etc., is located.
     * <p>
     * This property is available calling the
     * <code>BundleContext.getProperty(String)</code> method.
     *
     * @see #SLING_HOME_URL
     */
    String SLING_HOME = "sling.home";

    /**
     * The name of the framework property defining the Sling home directory as
     * an URL (value is "sling.home.url").
     * <p>
     * The value of this property is assigned the value of
     * <code>new File(${sling.home}).toURI().toString()</code> before
     * resolving the property variables.
     * <p>
     * This property is available calling the
     * <code>BundleContext.getProperty(String)</code> method.
     *
     * @see #SLING_HOME
     */
    String SLING_HOME_URL = "sling.home.url";

    /**
     * The name of the framework property defining the set of used
     * run modes.
     * The value is a comma separated list of run modes.
     */
    String RUN_MODES_PROPERTY = "sling.run.modes";


    /**
     * The identifier of the running Sling instance.
     */
    String getSlingId();

    /**
     * Returns the value of the {@link #SLING_HOME}
     * property.
     */
    String getSlingHomePath();

    /**
     * Returns the value of the {@link #SLING_HOME_URL}
     * property.
     */
    URL getSlingHome();

    /**
     * Return the set of activate run modes.
     * This set might be empty.
     * @return A non modifiable set of run modes.
     */
    Set<String> getRunModes();

}