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| * Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 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.ui.memory; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Represents a type of memory rendering contributed via the <code>memoryRenderings</code> |
| * extension point. |
| * <p> |
| * Clients contributing a rendering usually |
| * implement {@link org.eclipse.debug.ui.memory.IMemoryRenderingTypeDelegate} |
| * and {@link org.eclipse.debug.ui.memory.IMemoryRendering}. Clients providing |
| * dynamic rendering bindings via an |
| * {@link org.eclipse.debug.ui.memory.IMemoryRenderingBindingsProvider} |
| * may implement this interface. |
| * </p> |
| * @since 3.1 |
| */ |
| public interface IMemoryRenderingType { |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns a label for this type of memory rendering. |
| * |
| * @return a label for this type of memory rendering |
| */ |
| public String getLabel(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the unique identifier for this rendering type. |
| * |
| * @return the unique identifier for this rendering type |
| */ |
| public String getId(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates and returns a new rendering of this type or <code>null</code> |
| * if none. |
| * |
| * @return a new rendering of this type |
| * @exception CoreException if an exception occurrs creating |
| * the rendering |
| */ |
| public IMemoryRendering createRendering() throws CoreException; |
| |
| } |
