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| * Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 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.core.runtime.preferences; |
| |
| /** |
| * Clients contributing a scope to the Eclipse preference system must |
| * implement this interface to aid Eclipse in creating a new node for the |
| * hierarchy. |
| * <p> |
| * Clients may implement this interface. |
| * </p> |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IScope { |
| |
| /** |
| * Create and return a new preference node with the given parent and name. |
| * Must not return <code>null</code>. Clients are able to create a new node |
| * in memory or load the node's contents from the backing store. Neither the |
| * parent or name arguments should be <code>null</code>. |
| * <p> |
| * Implementors should note that the node might not have been added to the |
| * child list of the parent yet, and therefore might not be able to be referenced |
| * through navigation from the root node. |
| * </p> |
| * @param parent the node's parent |
| * @param name the name of the node |
| * @return the new node |
| */ |
| public IEclipsePreferences create(IEclipsePreferences parent, String name); |
| } |
