001 /** 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.geronimo.kernel.repository; 018 019 import java.util.SortedSet; 020 021 /** 022 * For repositories that can provide a list of their contents. 023 * Normally local ones can handle it, but remote ones may or may 024 * not implement this. 025 * 026 * @version $Rev: 706640 $ $Date: 2008-10-21 14:44:05 +0000 (Tue, 21 Oct 2008) $ 027 */ 028 public interface ListableRepository extends Repository { 029 /** 030 * Gets a set (with entries of type Artifact) of all the items available 031 * in the repository. 032 * @return sorted list of artifacts in the repository 033 */ 034 public SortedSet<Artifact> list(); 035 036 /** 037 * Gets a set (with entries of type Artifact) of all the available items 038 * matching the specified artifact, which is normally not fully resolved 039 * (so the results all match whatever fields are specified on the argument 040 * Artifact). 041 * @param query match for repository 042 * @return sorted list of artifacts in the repository that match the query. 043 */ 044 public SortedSet<Artifact> list(Artifact query); 045 }