org.apache.ivy.plugins.lock
Interface LockStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractLockStrategy, ArtifactLockStrategy, FileBasedLockStrategy, NoLockStrategy

public interface LockStrategy

A lock strategy determines when and how lock should be performed when downloading data to a cache.

Note that some implementations may actually choose to NOT perform locking, when no lock is necessary (cache not shared). Some other implementations may choose to lock the cache for the download of a whole module (not possible yet), or at the artifact level.

The lock methods should return true when the lock is either actually acquired or not performed by the strategy.

Locking used in the locking strategy must support reentrant lock. Reentrant locking should be performed for the whole strategy.


Method Summary
 java.lang.String getName()
          Returns the name of the strategy
 boolean lockArtifact(Artifact artifact, java.io.File artifactFileToDownload)
          Performs a lock before downloading the given Artifact to the given file.
 void unlockArtifact(Artifact artifact, java.io.File artifactFileToDownload)
          Release the lock acquired for an artifact download.
 

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()
Returns the name of the strategy

Returns:
the name of the strategy

lockArtifact

boolean lockArtifact(Artifact artifact,
                     java.io.File artifactFileToDownload)
                     throws java.lang.InterruptedException
Performs a lock before downloading the given Artifact to the given file.

Parameters:
artifact - the artifact about to be downloaded
artifactFileToDownload - the file where the artifact will be downloaded
Returns:
true if the artifact is locked, false otherwise
Throws:
java.lang.InterruptedException - if the thread is interrupted while waiting to acquire the lock

unlockArtifact

void unlockArtifact(Artifact artifact,
                    java.io.File artifactFileToDownload)
Release the lock acquired for an artifact download.

Parameters:
artifact - the artifact for which the lock was acquired
artifactFileToDownload - the file where the artifact is supposed to have been downloaded