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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2014 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.transfer;
+
+/**
+ * A listener being notified of artifact/metadata transfers from/to remote repositories. The listener may be called from
+ * an arbitrary thread. Reusing common regular expression syntax, the sequence of events is roughly as follows:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ * INITIATED ( STARTED PROGRESSED* CORRUPTED? )* ( SUCCEEDED | FAILED )
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * <em>Note:</em> Implementors are strongly advised to inherit from {@link AbstractTransferListener} instead of directly
+ * implementing this interface.
+ *
+ * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession#getTransferListener()
+ * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositoryListener
+ * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
+ * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
+ */
+public interface TransferListener
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener about the initiation of a transfer. This event gets fired before any actual network access
+ * to the remote repository and usually indicates some thread is now about to perform the transfer. For a given
+ * transfer request, this event is the first one being fired and it must be emitted exactly once.
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @throws TransferCancelledException If the transfer should be aborted.
+ */
+ void transferInitiated( TransferEvent event )
+ throws TransferCancelledException;
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener about the start of a data transfer. This event indicates a successful connection to the
+ * remote repository. In case of a download, the requested remote resource exists and its size is given by
+ * {@link TransferResource#getContentLength()} if possible. This event may be fired multiple times for given
+ * transfer request if said transfer needs to be repeated (e.g. in response to an authentication challenge).
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @throws TransferCancelledException If the transfer should be aborted.
+ */
+ void transferStarted( TransferEvent event )
+ throws TransferCancelledException;
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener about some progress in the data transfer. This event may even be fired if actually zero
+ * bytes have been transferred since the last event, for instance to enable cancellation.
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @throws TransferCancelledException If the transfer should be aborted.
+ */
+ void transferProgressed( TransferEvent event )
+ throws TransferCancelledException;
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener that a checksum validation failed. {@link TransferEvent#getException()} will be of type
+ * {@link ChecksumFailureException} and can be used to query further details about the expected/actual checksums.
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @throws TransferCancelledException If the transfer should be aborted.
+ */
+ void transferCorrupted( TransferEvent event )
+ throws TransferCancelledException;
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener about the successful completion of a transfer. This event must be fired exactly once for a
+ * given transfer request unless said request failed.
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ */
+ void transferSucceeded( TransferEvent event );
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the listener about the unsuccessful termination of a transfer. {@link TransferEvent#getException()} will
+ * provide further information about the failure.
+ *
+ * @param event The event details, must not be {@code null}.
+ */
+ void transferFailed( TransferEvent event );
+
+}