| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2012 Tasktop Technologies 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: |
| * Sebastian Schmidt - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| |
| package org.eclipse.mylyn.context.core; |
| |
| import java.io.InputStream; |
| |
| /** |
| * A ContextContributor may be used to put additional data to Mylyn context. As the ContextContributor is in charge of |
| * serialization and deserialization of provided data, the data type is not limited. |
| * |
| * @since 3.9 |
| * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients. |
| * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. |
| */ |
| public interface IContextContributor extends IContextListener { |
| |
| /** |
| * Provides data which should be added to the given context. |
| * |
| * @param context |
| * context that is going to be saved |
| * @return an InputStream with context related data or null |
| */ |
| public InputStream getDataAsStream(IInteractionContext context); |
| |
| /** |
| * @return an unique identifier for this ContextContributor |
| */ |
| public String getIdentifier(); |
| } |