Scene7Service API | search asset by metadata

[Radha_Krishna_N]

Hi,

I am using AEM 6.1 + SP1 and trying to implement a service which searches scene7 asset by metadata.

com.day.cq.dam.scene7.api.Scene7Service#searchAssetsByMetadata

in pom.xml, I have the dependency

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.day.cq.dam</groupId>
   <artifactId>cq-dam-scene7</artifactId>
   <version>5.8.26</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

in the service

. . . . 
@Reference
S7Service s7Service;
MetadataCondition metadataCondition = new MetadataCondition("name", 4, "s7-asset-name");
MetadataCondition[] conditions = {metadataCondition};
List<Scene7Asset> scene7Assets = null;
scene7Assets = s7Service.searchAssetsByMetadata("S7DAMFolder/", false, assetTypes, assetSubTypes, true, conditions, s7Config);

the issue here is MetadataCondition is a class in Private-packages (MANIFEST.MF) and I need this class in my bundle.

The question here is If the API needs the user to pass MetadataCondition as an argument, why it is in private-package?

Thanks,

Radha Krishna N