Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

 * of the Valencian Government (CIT)

 * 

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 * 

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 * 

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, 

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 * 

 */

/*

 * AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

 * 2010 {Prodevelop}   {Task}

 */

package org.gvsig.installer.lib.spi;

import org.gvsig.installer.lib.api.PackageInfo;

import org.gvsig.installer.lib.spi.execution.InstallPackageProvider;

import org.gvsig.tools.service.ServiceException;

import org.gvsig.tools.service.spi.ProviderManager;

/**

 * <p>

 * The installation process install packages in gvSIG. These packages has a

 * type, that can be a plugin, theme, translation, etc. For every type of

 * package the installation process needs a provider for installing the

 * packages.

 * </p>

 * <p>

 * All the packages to install have to have some install properties defined by

 * the {@link PackageInfo} class. This class is just a set of properties and

 * there is a property named <b>type</b> that can be retrieved by the

 * {@link PackageInfo#getType()} method that defines the package type. This

 * property is used to create a {@link InstallPackageProvider} that is used to

 * install the selected package.

 * </p>

 * <p>

 * This manager provides the functionality to register and to create a providers

 * for every package.

 * </p>

 * 

 * @author <a href="mailto:jpiera@gvsig.org">Jorge Piera Llodr&aacute;</a>

 */

public interface InstallerProviderManager extends ProviderManager {

    /**

     * Creates a new provider to execute an installer to add a new package in

     * gvSIG.

     * 

     * @param providerName

     *            the provider name used on the registration of the provider.

     *            This name is the

     *            type attribute defined by {@link PackageInfo}.

     * @return

     *         a provider that can be used to install a package.

     * @throws ServiceException

     *             if the provider doesn't exist or if there is a problem

     *             creating the provider.

     */

    public InstallPackageProvider createExecutionProvider(String providerName)

        throws ServiceException;

    /**

     * Creates the services that be used for the providers to execute or

     * create a new bundle.

     * 

     * @return

     *         the services used to create or execute an bundle.

     */

    public InstallPackageProviderServices createInstallerProviderServices();

    /**

     * Returns the name to use for the package info file.

     * 

     * @return the name of the package info file

     */

    public String getPackageInfoFileName();

}