/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Mathieu Baudier
 *
 * 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.
 */
package org.argeo.jcr.proxy;

import javax.jcr.Node;
import javax.jcr.Session;

/** A proxy which nows how to resolve and synchronize relative URLs */
public interface ResourceProxy {
	/** Path to the proxied node (which may not already exist) */
	public String getNodePath(String relativePath);

	/**
	 * Proxy the file referenced by this relative path in the underlying
	 * repository
	 * 
	 * @return the unique identifier of the proxied Node, <code>null</code> if
	 *         the resource was not found (e.g. HTPP 404)
	 */
	public Node proxy(Session session,String relativePath);
}