bundles/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director/src/org/eclipse/equinox/internal/provisional/p2/director/IPlanner.java

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package org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.director;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.ProvisioningContext;
import org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.metadata.IInstallableUnit;

/**
 * Planners are responsible for determining what should be done to a given 
 * profile to reshape it as requested. That is, given the current state of a 
 * profile, a description of the desired end state of that profile and metadata 
 * describing the available IUs, a planner produces a plan that lists the
 * provisioning operands that the engine should perform.  
 */
public interface IPlanner {
	public ProvisioningPlan getProvisioningPlan(ProfileChangeRequest profileChangeRequest, ProvisioningContext context, IProgressMonitor monitor);

	public ProvisioningPlan getRevertPlan(IInstallableUnit profileSnapshot, ProvisioningContext context, IProgressMonitor monitor);

	public IInstallableUnit[] updatesFor(IInstallableUnit toUpdate, ProvisioningContext context, IProgressMonitor monitor);

}