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-package org.apache.maven.archiva.database.updater;
-
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.Consumer;
-import org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.ConsumerException;
-import org.apache.maven.archiva.model.ArchivaArtifact;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-/**
- * ArchivaArtifactConsumer - consumer for ArchivaArtifact objects. 
- *
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public interface ArchivaArtifactConsumer extends Consumer
-{
-    /**
-     * Get the list of included file patterns for this consumer.
-     * 
-     * @return the list of ({@link String}) artifact types to process.
-     */
-    public List<String> getIncludedTypes();
-
-    /**
-     * <p>
-     * Event that triggers at the beginning of a scan.
-     * </p>
-     * 
-     * <p>
-     * NOTE: This would be a good place to initialize the consumer, to lock any resources, and to
-     * generally start tracking the scan as a whole.
-     * </p>
-     */
-    public void beginScan();
-
-    /**
-     * <p>
-     * Event indicating an {@link ArchivaArtifact} is to be processed by this consumer.
-     * </p> 
-     * 
-     * <p>
-     * NOTE: The consumer does not need to process the artifact immediately, can can opt to queue and/or track
-     * the artifact to be processed in batch.  Just be sure to complete the processing by the {@link #completeScan()} 
-     * event. 
-     * </p>
-     * 
-     * @param file the file to process.
-     * @throws ConsumerException if there was a problem processing this file.
-     */
-    public void processArchivaArtifact( ArchivaArtifact artifact ) throws ConsumerException;
-
-    /**
-     * <p>
-     * Event that triggers on the completion of a scan.
-     * </p>
-     * 
-     * <p>
-     * NOTE: If the consumer opted to batch up processing requests in the 
-     * {@link #processArchivaArtifact(ArchivaArtifact)} event this would be the last opportunity to drain 
-     * any processing queue's.
-     * </p>
-     */
-    public void completeScan();
-}