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* Copyright (c) 2010 Sonatype, Inc.
* 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:
* Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.index.filter;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
import org.eclipse.m2e.core.embedder.ArtifactKey;
/**
* Experimental extension point interface that allows filtering of maven index artifacts from appearing from various
* places where m2e allows selection of artifacts.
*/
public interface IArtifactFilter {
/**
* @param project is the filtering context project. can be <code>null</code> if no project context.
* @param artifact is the artifact to filter
* @return <code>null</code> or OK status if the artifact should be allowed, INFO/WARNING status to allow with a
* message and ERROR status to block the artifact.
*/
public IStatus filter(IProject project, ArtifactKey artifact);
}