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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.aether.resolution;
+
+import org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession;
+import org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact;
+import org.eclipse.aether.metadata.Metadata;
+
+/**
+ * Controls the caching of resolution errors for artifacts/metadata from remote repositories. If caching is enabled for
+ * a given resource, a marker will be set (usually somewhere in the local repository) to suppress repeated resolution
+ * attempts for the broken resource, thereby avoiding expensive but useless network IO. The error marker is considered
+ * stale once the repository's update policy has expired at which point a future resolution attempt will be allowed.
+ * Error caching considers the current network settings such that fixes to the configuration like authentication or
+ * proxy automatically trigger revalidation with the remote side regardless of the time elapsed since the previous
+ * resolution error.
+ *
+ * @see RepositorySystemSession#getResolutionErrorPolicy()
+ */
+public interface ResolutionErrorPolicy
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Bit mask indicating that resolution errors should not be cached in the local repository. This forces the system
+ * to always query the remote repository for locally missing artifacts/metadata.
+ */
+ int CACHE_DISABLED = 0x00;
+
+ /**
+ * Bit flag indicating whether missing artifacts/metadata should be cached in the local repository. If caching is
+ * enabled, resolution will not be reattempted until the update policy for the affected resource has expired.
+ */
+ int CACHE_NOT_FOUND = 0x01;
+
+ /**
+ * Bit flag indicating whether connectivity/transfer errors (e.g. unreachable host, bad authentication) should be
+ * cached in the local repository. If caching is enabled, resolution will not be reattempted until the update policy
+ * for the affected resource has expired.
+ */
+ int CACHE_TRANSFER_ERROR = 0x02;
+
+ /**
+ * Bit mask indicating that all resolution errors should be cached in the local repository.
+ */
+ int CACHE_ALL = CACHE_NOT_FOUND | CACHE_TRANSFER_ERROR;
+
+ /**
+ * Gets the error policy for an artifact.
+ *
+ * @param session The repository session during which the policy is determined, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @param request The policy request holding further details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return The bit mask describing the desired error policy.
+ */
+ int getArtifactPolicy( RepositorySystemSession session, ResolutionErrorPolicyRequest<Artifact> request );
+
+ /**
+ * Gets the error policy for some metadata.
+ *
+ * @param session The repository session during which the policy is determined, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @param request The policy request holding further details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return The bit mask describing the desired error policy.
+ */
+ int getMetadataPolicy( RepositorySystemSession session, ResolutionErrorPolicyRequest<Metadata> request );
+
+}