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package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.namepath;

import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

/**
 * {@code PathMapper} instances provide methods for mapping paths from their JCR
 * string representation to their Oak representation and vice versa.
 */
public interface PathMapper {

    /**
     * Returns the Oak path for the given JCR path, or {@code null} if no
     * such mapping exists because the given JCR path contains a name element
     * with an unknown namespace URI or prefix, or is otherwise invalid.
     *
     * @param jcrPath JCR path
     * @return Oak path, or {@code null}
     */
    @CheckForNull
    String getOakPath(String jcrPath);

    /**
     * As {@link #getOakPath(String)}, but preserving the index information
     *
     * @param jcrPath JCR path
     * @return mapped path, or {@code null}
     */
    @CheckForNull
    String getOakPathKeepIndex(String jcrPath);

    /**
     * Returns the JCR path for the given Oak path. The given path is
     * expected to have come from a valid Oak repository that contains
     * only valid paths whose name elements only use proper namespace
     * mappings. If that's not the case, either a programming error or
     * a repository corruption has occurred and an appropriate unchecked
     * exception gets thrown.
     *
     * @param oakPath Oak path
     * @return JCR path
     */
    @Nonnull
    String getJcrPath(String oakPath);

}

@@ -1067,16 +1067,287 @@
  versa.%0A
+ *%0A * The Oak representation of a path consists of an optional forward slash followed%0A * by the names of the respective items in the%0A * %7B@link org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.api.Tree%7D separated by forward slashes.%0A * FIXME make leading forward slash not optional. See OAK-221%0A
  */%0Apubl

Clarify nature of 'path' parameter in oak-api specify syntax of Oak paths