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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2007 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.core; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * An event filter allows clients to intercept debug events. |
| * Event filters are registered with the debug plug-in. |
| * <p> |
| * Clients may implement this interface. |
| * </p> |
| * @see DebugPlugin |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IDebugEventFilter { |
| |
| /** |
| * Filters the given set of debug events, and returns the set of debug |
| * events that should be fired to registered listeners - <code>null</code> |
| * or an empty collection if no debug events should be fired. |
| * <p> |
| * When multiple event filters are registered, events are passed through |
| * all filters. That is, the events returned from the first filter are |
| * passed through the second filter, and so on. |
| * </p> |
| * @param events set of debug events to filter |
| * @return the set of debug events to fire |
| */ |
| public DebugEvent[] filterDebugEvents(DebugEvent[] events); |
| } |
