01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package org.apache.commons.vfs.provider;
18:
19: import org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException;
20:
21: import java.io.File;
22:
23: /**
24: * Manages a repository of temporary local files.
25: *
26: * @author <a href="mailto:adammurdoch@apache.org">Adam Murdoch</a>
27: * @version $Revision: 480428 $ $Date: 2006-11-28 22:15:24 -0800 (Tue, 28 Nov 2006) $
28: */
29: public interface TemporaryFileStore {
30: /**
31: * Allocates a new temporary file. The file (and all its descendents)
32: * will be deleted when this store is closed.
33: *
34: * @param basename The name of the file.
35: */
36: File allocateFile(String basename) throws FileSystemException;
37: }
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