| /*************************************************************************** |
| * Copyright (c) 2004 - 2008 Eike Stepper, Germany. |
| * 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: |
| * Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation |
| * Simon McDuff - http://bugs.eclipse.org/226778 |
| **************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.emf.cdo.common.id; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.net4j.util.io.ExtendedDataInput; |
| |
| /** |
| * @author Eike Stepper |
| */ |
| public interface CDOIDObjectFactory |
| { |
| /** |
| * Returns a new instance of CDOIDObject. The implementor of this method may use (read from) the given data input to |
| * determine which class to instantiate. The data input must not be used to fill the state of the new instance, this |
| * has to be done in the implementation of the {@link CDOID#read(ExtendedDataInput, boolean) read()} method of the new |
| * instance. |
| */ |
| public CDOIDObject createCDOIDObject(ExtendedDataInput in); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns a new instance of CDOIDObject. This implementation is different from |
| * {@link #createCDOIDObject(ExtendedDataInput)} since the implementor of this method needs to construct a |
| * <b>complete</b> CDOIDObject from the given string. |
| * |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public CDOIDObject createCDOIDObject(String fragmentPart); |
| } |
