/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Argeo GmbH
 *
 * 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;

/** A proxy which nows how to resolve and synchronize relative URLs */
public interface ResourceProxy {
	/**
	 * Proxy the file referenced by this relative path in the underlying
	 * repository. A new session is created by each call, so the underlying
	 * session of the returned node must be closed by the caller.
	 * 
	 * @return the proxied Node, <code>null</code> if the resource was not found
	 *         (e.g. HTTP 404)
	 */
	public Node proxy(String relativePath);
}