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* Copyright (c) 2006 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.debug.internal.ui.viewers.provisional;
/**
* An adapter used to column editors. Used in conjunction with a column presentation.
*
* @since 3.2
*/
public interface IColumnEditorFactoryAdapter {
/**
* Constructs and returns the column editor for the given presentation
* context (view) and element, or <code>null</code> of none.
*
* @param context presentation context
* @param element the element
* @return column editor or <code>null</code>
*/
public IColumnEditor createColumnEditor(IPresentationContext context, Object element);
/**
* Returns the type of column editor to be used for the given context and object
* or <code>null</code> if none. Allows a previous column editor to be re-used if
* it has not changed type.
*
* @param context presentaiton context
* @param element element
* @return column edtior id or <code>null</code>
*/
public String getColumnEditorId(IPresentationContext context, Object element);
}