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package org.jclouds.blobstore;

import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.Blob;
import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.BlobBuilder;
import org.jclouds.blobstore.internal.BlobMapImpl;
import org.jclouds.blobstore.options.ListContainerOptions;

import com.google.inject.ImplementedBy;

/**
 * This allows you to access the underlying {@link Blob} so that you can manually set metadata such
 * as length, content-type, or eTag hash.
 * 
 * @author Adrian Cole
 * 
 * @deprecated will be removed in jclouds 1.7. Please use {@link BlobStore}
 */
@Deprecated
@ImplementedBy(BlobMapImpl.class)
public interface BlobMap extends ListableMap<String, Blob> {

   /**
    * 
    * @return builder for creating new {@link Blob}s
    */
   BlobBuilder blobBuilder();

   public static interface Factory {
      BlobMap create(String containerName, ListContainerOptions options);
   }

}
