[equinox-dev] [prov] request handler orientation

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

looking through the artifact repo code
I noticed that the way it is now, MirrorRequests get/are given a RequestHandler
and then that is used to do the actual file transfer.  Is there a
usecase that drives the repo communication policy to be externally defined?
 That is, is there a reason that the repository object itself should
not decide how it is going to talk to the backing store (e.g., server)?
 For example, MirrorRequest.perform() should just say, IArtifactRepository.getArtifact(key
| descriptor | whatever) and get back a stream that it can write into the
destination repo.

Thoughts?

Jeff