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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 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 |
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| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.core.runtime; |
| |
| /** |
| * Safe runnables represent blocks of code and associated exception |
| * handlers. They are typically used when a plug-in needs to call some |
| * untrusted code (e.g., code contributed by another plug-in via an |
| * extension). |
| * <p> |
| * This interface can be used without OSGi running. |
| * </p><p> |
| * Clients may implement this interface. |
| * </p> |
| * @see Platform#run(ISafeRunnable) |
| */ |
| public interface ISafeRunnable { |
| /** |
| * Handles an exception thrown by this runnable's <code>run</code> |
| * method. The processing done here should be specific to the |
| * particular usecase for this runnable. Generalized exception |
| * processing (e.g., logging in the platform's log) is done by the |
| * Platform's run mechanism. |
| * |
| * @param exception an exception which occurred during processing |
| * the body of this runnable (i.e., in <code>run()</code>) |
| * @see Platform#run(ISafeRunnable) |
| */ |
| public void handleException(Throwable exception); |
| |
| /** |
| * Runs this runnable. Any exceptions thrown from this method will |
| * be passed to this runnable's <code>handleException</code> |
| * method. |
| * |
| * @exception Exception if a problem occurred while running this method. |
| * The exception will be processed by <code>handleException</code> |
| * @see Platform#run(ISafeRunnable) |
| */ |
| public void run() throws Exception; |
| } |
