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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2008 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core; |
| |
| /** |
| * A factory that creates <code>IBuffer</code>s for openables. |
| * <p> |
| * This interface may be implemented by clients. |
| * </p> |
| * @deprecated Use {@link WorkingCopyOwner} instead |
| * |
| * Provisional API: This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to |
| * change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback |
| * from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken |
| * (repeatedly) as the API evolves. |
| */ |
| public interface IBufferFactory { |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates a buffer for the given owner. |
| * The new buffer will be initialized with the contents of the owner |
| * if and only if it was not already initialized by the factory (a buffer is uninitialized if |
| * its content is <code>null</code>). |
| * |
| * @param owner the owner of the buffer |
| * @return the newly created buffer |
| * @see IBuffer |
| */ |
| IBuffer createBuffer(IOpenable owner); |
| } |
| |
