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package org.gradle.internal.component.model;

import org.gradle.api.artifacts.component.ComponentArtifactIdentifier;
import org.gradle.api.artifacts.component.ComponentIdentifier;

/**
 * Meta-data for an artifact that belongs to some component.
 */
public interface ComponentArtifactMetadata {
    /**
     * Returns the identifier for this artifact.
     */
    ComponentArtifactIdentifier getId();

    /**
     * Returns the identifier for the component that this artifact belongs to.
     */
    ComponentIdentifier getComponentId();

    /**
     * Returns this artifact as an Ivy artifact. This method is here to allow the artifact to be exposed in a backward-compatible way.
     */
    IvyArtifactName getName();
}
