/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2007 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:
 *     xored software, Inc. - Initial implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.dltk.internal.ui.text;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;

/**
 * Extension to <code>IProblemRequestor</code>.
 */
public interface IProblemRequestorExtension {

	/**
	 * Sets the progress monitor to this problem requestor.
	 * 
	 * @param monitor
	 *            the progress monitor to be used
	 */
	void setProgressMonitor(IProgressMonitor monitor);

	/**
	 * Sets the active state of this problem requestor.
	 * 
	 * @param isActive
	 *            the state of this problem requestor
	 */
	void setIsActive(boolean isActive);

	/**
	 * Informs the problem requestor that a sequence of reportings is about to
	 * start. While a sequence is active, multiple peering calls of
	 * <code>beginReporting</code> and <code>endReporting</code> can appear.
	 * 
	 */
	void beginReportingSequence();

	/**
	 * Informs the problem requestor that the sequence of reportings has been
	 * finished.
	 * 
	 */
	void endReportingSequence();

	/**
	 * Tells the problem requestor to handle temporary problems.
	 * 
	 * @param enable
	 *            <code>true</code> if temporary problems are handled
	 */
	void setIsHandlingTemporaryProblems(boolean enable);
}