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* Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Texas Instruments and others
*
* This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*
* Contributors:
* Patrick Chuong (Texas Instruments) - Allow multiple debug views and
* multiple debug context providers (Bug 327263)
*****************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.debug.ui.contexts;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPart;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
/**
* This extension to {@link IDebugContextProvider} allows clients to specify the scope that the context
* provider will apply to. With {@link IDebugContextProvider2}, a provider indicate if it should be a context
* provider for the entire {@link IWorkbenchWindow} or only for is given {@link IWorkbenchPart}.
*
* <p>
* This interface is intended to be implemented by clients
* </p>
*
* @since 3.7
*/
public interface IDebugContextProvider2 extends IDebugContextProvider {
/**
* Return whether the provider can be set as an active provider for the
* window.
* <p>
* If <code>true</code>, when the provider's part is
* activated this provider will become the active debug context provider
* for the whole window. If <code>false</code>, this provider will
* only set the active context in a given workbench part.
*
* @return <code>true</code> if this provider can act as the provider for the entire window, <code>false</code> if it can
* only be the provider for its given part.
* provider for a window.
*/
boolean isWindowContextProvider();
}