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// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
#library('source');
#import('package.dart');
/**
* A source from which to install packages.
*
* Each source has many packages that it looks up using [PackageId]s. The source
* is responsible for installing these packages to the package cache.
*/
class Source {
/**
* The name of the source. Should be lower-case, suitable for use in a
* filename, and unique accross all sources.
*/
abstract String get name();
/**
* Whether this source's packages should be cached in Pub's global cache
* directory.
*
* A source should be cached if it requires network access to retrieve
* packages. It doesn't need to be cached if all packages are available
* locally.
*/
abstract bool get shouldCache();
/**
* Installs the package identified by [id] to [path]. Returns a [Future] that
* completes when the installation was finished. The [Future] should resolve
* to true if the package was found in the source and false if it wasn't. For
* all other error conditions, it should complete with an exception.
*
* If [shouldCache] is true, [path] will be a path to this source's
* subdirectory of the [PackageCache]'s cache directory. If [shouldCache] is
* false, [path] will be a path to the application's "packages" directory.
*
* [path] is guaranteed not to exist, and its parent directory is guaranteed
* to exist.
*/
abstract Future<bool> install(PackageId id, String path);
/**
* When a [Pubspec] is parsed, it reads in the description for each
* dependency. It is up to the dependency's [Source] to determine how that
* should be interpreted. This will be called during parsing to validate that
* the given [description] is well-formed according to this source. It should
* return if the description is valid, or throw a [FormatException] if not.
*/
void validateDescription(description) {}
/**
* Returns a human-friendly name for the package identified by [id]. This
* method should be light-weight. It doesn't need to validate that the given
* package exists.
*
* The package name should be lower-case and suitable for use in a filename.
* It may contain forward slashes.
*/
String packageName(PackageId id) => id.description;
}