com.atlassian.plugin
Interface PluginArtifact

All Known Implementing Classes:

JarPluginArtifact, XmlPluginArtifact

public interface PluginArtifact

Allows the retrieval of files and/or an input stream of a plugin artifact. Implementations must allow multiple calls to getInputStream().

Since:

2.0.0

See Also:

PluginController

Nested Class Summary

static interface	PluginArtifact.AllowsReference Additional interface for a plugin artifact which may support reference installation.
static interface	PluginArtifact.HasExtraModuleDescriptors

Method Summary

boolean	containsJavaExecutableCode()
boolean	doesResourceExist(String name)
InputStream	getInputStream()
String	getName()
InputStream	getResourceAsStream(String name)
File	toFile()

Method Detail

doesResourceExist

boolean doesResourceExist(String name)

Returns:

true if the resource exists in this artifact, otherwise false

Since:

2.2.0

getResourceAsStream

InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name)
                                throws PluginParseException

Returns:

an input stream of the resource specified inside the artifact. Null if the resource cannot be found.

Throws:

PluginParseException - if the there was an exception retrieving the resource from the artifact

getName

String getName()

Returns:

the original name of the plugin artifact file. Typically used for persisting it to disk with a meaningful name.

getInputStream

InputStream getInputStream()

Returns:

an InputStream for the entire plugin artifact. Calling this multiple times will return a fresh input stream each time.

toFile

File toFile()

Returns:

the artifact as a file, or its underlying file if it is already one

Since:

2.2.0

containsJavaExecutableCode

boolean containsJavaExecutableCode()

Returns:

true if the plugin contains or references java executable code.

Since:

3.0