[IVY-1011] Enhance download options

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jan Materne
• Created: 23/Jan/09 10:03
• Updated: 01/Sep/17 04:11

Description

Enhance the downloading of artefacts.

• parallel downloads
• resuming a download
• partial downloads
• using a downloadmanager (for getting the first three topics)

(Without knowing the internals) I think of something like

public interface Downloader {
    /**
     * @param source From where to download
     * @param target where to store the artefact
     * @param progressReporter something that reports the progress (the [.......]ok  at the moment)
    */
    download(URI source, File target, ?? progressReporter);
}

Implementations:

• SerialDownloader : the existing downloader
• ParallelDownloader : starts multiple downloads in parallel
• SunDownloader : uses Sun Downloadmanager [1] for doing the job
• ??Downloader : other (free available Java based) download manager

[1] http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/download.xml