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-package org.apache.maven.artifact;
-
-/* ====================================================================
- *   Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- *   Licensed 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.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
-import org.apache.maven.artifact.request.ArtifactRequestTransformation;
-import org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolver;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.text.ParseException;
-import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.TimeZone;
-
-/**
- * @author <a href="mailto:mmaczka@interia.pl">Michal Maczka</a>
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class SnapshotRequestTransformation
-    implements ArtifactRequestTransformation
-{
-    private ArtifactResolver artifactResolver;
-
-    public Artifact transform( Artifact artifact,
-                               ArtifactRepository localRepository,
-                               Set repositories,
-                               Map parameters )
-        throws Exception
-    {
-        Date localVersion = getLocalVersion( artifact, localRepository );
-
-        Date remoteVersion = getRemoteVersion( artifact, repositories, localRepository );
-
-        if ( remoteVersion != null )
-        {
-            //if  local version is unknown (null) it means that
-            //we don't have this file locally. so we will be happy
-            // to have any snapshot.
-            // we wil download in two cases:
-            //  a) we don't have any snapot in local repo
-            //  b) we have found newer version in remote repository
-            if ( localVersion == null || localVersion.before( remoteVersion ) )
-            {
-                // here we know that we have artifact like foo-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
-                // and the remote timestamp is something like 20010304.121212
-                // so we might as well fetch foo-1.2-20010304.121212.jar
-                // but we are just going to fetch foo-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar.
-                // We can change the strategy which is used here later on
-
-                // @todo we will delete old file first.
-                //it is not really a right thing to do. Artifact Dowloader should
-                // fetch to temprary file and replace the old file with the new
-                // one once download was finished
-
-                artifact.getFile().delete();
-
-                artifactResolver.resolve( artifact, repositories, localRepository );
-
-                File snapshotVersionFile = getSnapshotVersionFile( artifact, localRepository );
-
-                String timestamp = getTimestamp( remoteVersion );
-
-                // delete old one
-                if ( snapshotVersionFile.exists() )
-                {
-                    snapshotVersionFile.delete();
-                }
-
-                FileUtils.fileWrite( snapshotVersionFile.getPath(), timestamp );
-            }
-        }
-
-        return artifact;
-    }
-
-    private File getSnapshotVersionFile( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository )
-    {
-        return null;
-        //return new File( localRepository.fullArtifactPath( artifact ) );
-    }
-
-    private Date getRemoteVersion( Artifact artifact, Set remoteRepositories, ArtifactRepository localRepository )
-        throws Exception
-    {
-        Date retValue = null;
-
-        artifactResolver.resolve( artifact, remoteRepositories, localRepository );
-
-        String timestamp = FileUtils.fileRead( artifact.getPath() );
-
-        retValue = parseTimestamp( timestamp );
-
-        return retValue;
-    }
-
-    private Date getLocalVersion( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository )
-    {
-        //assert artifact.exists();
-
-        Date retValue = null;
-
-        try
-        {
-            File file = getSnapshotVersionFile( artifact, localRepository );
-
-            if ( file.exists() )
-            {
-                String timestamp = FileUtils.fileRead( file );
-
-                retValue = parseTimestamp( timestamp );
-
-            }
-        }
-        catch ( Exception e )
-        {
-            // ignore
-        }
-
-        if ( retValue == null )
-        {
-            //try "traditional method" used in maven1 for obtaining snapshot version
-
-            File file = artifact.getFile();
-
-            if ( file.exists() )
-            {
-                retValue = new Date( file.lastModified() );
-
-                //@todo we should "normalize" the time.
-
-                /*TimeZone gmtTimeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone( "GMT" );
-
-                TimeZone userTimeZone = TimeZone.getDefault();
-
-                long diff =
-                */
-            }
-        }
-
-        return retValue;
-    }
-
-    private final static String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyyMMdd.HHmmss";
-
-    private static SimpleDateFormat getFormatter()
-    {
-        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( DATE_FORMAT );
-
-        formatter.setTimeZone( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "GMT" ) );
-
-        return formatter;
-    }
-
-    public static String getTimestamp
-        ()
-    {
-        Date now = new Date();
-
-        SimpleDateFormat formatter = getFormatter();
-
-        String retValue = formatter.format( now );
-
-        return retValue;
-    }
-
-    public static Date parseTimestamp ( String timestamp )
-        throws ParseException
-    {
-        Date retValue = getFormatter().parse( timestamp );
-
-        return retValue;
-    }
-
-    public static String getTimestamp ( Date snapshotVersion )
-    {
-        String retValue = getFormatter().format( snapshotVersion );
-
-        return retValue;
-    }
-}