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package thredds.inventory;

/**
 * Inventory "Managed File". An abstraction for java.io.File.
 * Replaces Crawlable Dataset.
 *
 * @author caron
 * @since Jun 30, 2009
 */
public interface MFile extends Comparable {

  /**
   * Get time of last modification at the time the MFile object was created
   * @return time of last modification in Unix time (msecs since reference), or -1 if unknown
   */
  public long getLastModified();

  /**
   * Size of file in bytes
   * @return  Size of file in bytes or -1 if unknown
   */
  public long getLength();

  public boolean isDirectory();

  /**
   * Get full path name, replace \\ with /
   * @return full path name
   */
  public String getPath();

  public String getName();

  public int compareTo(MFile o);

  // does not survive serialization ??
  public Object getAuxInfo();
  public void setAuxInfo(Object info);
}