001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 003 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 004 * distributed with this work for additional information 005 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 006 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 007 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 008 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 013 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 014 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 015 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 016 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 017 * under the License. 018 */ 019 020 package javax.mail; 021 022 /** 023 * @version $Rev: 467553 $ $Date: 2006-10-25 06:01:51 +0200 (Mi, 25. Okt 2006) $ 024 */ 025 public interface UIDFolder { 026 /** 027 * A special value than can be passed as the <code>end</code> parameter to 028 * {@link Folder#getMessages(int, int)} to indicate the last message in this folder. 029 */ 030 public static final long LASTUID = -1; 031 032 public abstract long getUIDValidity() throws MessagingException; 033 034 public abstract Message getMessageByUID(long uid) 035 throws MessagingException; 036 037 public abstract Message[] getMessagesByUID(long start, long end) 038 throws MessagingException; 039 040 public abstract Message[] getMessagesByUID(long[] ids) 041 throws MessagingException; 042 043 public abstract long getUID(Message message) throws MessagingException; 044 045 public static class FetchProfileItem extends FetchProfile.Item { 046 public static final FetchProfileItem UID = new FetchProfileItem("Uid"); 047 048 protected FetchProfileItem(String name) { 049 super(name); 050 } 051 } 052 }