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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.contribution.processor;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+
+/**
+ * An artifact processor that can read models from a URL.
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ * @tuscany.spi.extension.inheritfrom
+ */
+public interface URLArtifactProcessor<M> extends ArtifactProcessor<M> {
+
+    /**
+     * Reads a model from a URL.
+     * 
+     * @param contributionURL Contribution location URL
+     * @param artifactURI Artifact URI
+     * @param artifactURL Artifact location URL 
+     * @param context The context
+     * @return A model representation of the input.
+     */
+    M read(URL contributionURL, URI artifactURI, URL artifactURL, ProcessorContext context) throws ContributionReadException;
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns the type of artifact handled by this artifact processor.
+     *  
+     * @return The type of artifact handled by this artifact processor
+     */
+    String getArtifactType();
+
+}