chris@3: /*
chris@3:  *   SONEWS News Server
chris@3:  *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
chris@3:  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
chris@3:  *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
chris@3:  *   (at your option) any later version.
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
chris@3:  *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
chris@3:  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
chris@3:  *   GNU General Public License for more details.
chris@3:  *
chris@3:  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
chris@3:  *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
chris@3:  */
chris@3: package org.sonews.storage;
chris@3: 
chris@3: /**
cli@20:  * Provides access to storage backend instances.
chris@3:  * @author Christian Lins
chris@3:  * @since sonews/1.0
chris@3:  */
cli@42: public interface StorageProvider {
chris@3: 
cli@37: 	public boolean isSupported(String uri);
chris@3: 
cli@37: 	/**
cli@37: 	 * This method returns the reference to the associated storage.
cli@37: 	 * The reference MAY be unique for each thread. In any case it MUST be
cli@37: 	 * thread-safe to use this method.
cli@37: 	 * @return The reference to the associated Storage.
cli@37: 	 */
cli@37: 	public Storage storage(Thread thread)
cli@42: 			throws StorageBackendException;
chris@3: }