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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2009 Cloudsmith Inc. and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Cloudsmith Inc. - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata;
/**
* <p>The IVersionFormat represents the Omni Version Format in compiled form. It
* is also a parser for versions of that format.</p>
* <p>An instance of IVersionFormat is immutable and thus thread safe. The parser
* does not maintain any state.</p>
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface IVersionFormat {
/**
* The string that by default will be interpreted as the logical max string when parsing
* optional elements of type string and a default that is the empty string (i.e. OSGi)
*/
static final String DEFAULT_MAX_STRING_TRANSLATION = "zzz"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* The string that by default will be interpreted as the logical min string when parsing
* optional elements of type string and a default that is the max string (i.e. Maven triplets)
*/
static final String DEFAULT_MIN_STRING_TRANSLATION = "-"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Appends the string representation of this compiled format to
* the given StringBuffer.
* @param sb The buffer that will receive the string representation
*/
void toString(StringBuffer sb);
/**
* Parse the given version string.
* @param version The version string to parse.
* @return A created version.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException If the version string could not be parsed.
*/
Version parse(String version);
}
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