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* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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package org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.viewers.model.provisional;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;
/**
* Resolves selection conflicts within a model. When
* a selection exists in a viewer, and a client asks
* to set another selection, the selection policy for
* that model is asked to determine whether the new
* selection should override the previous selection.
* When a selection is from a different model, the
* original selection is maintained if its model selection
* policy specifies the selection to be 'sticky'.
* <p>
* A selection policy is obtained by querying for the selection
* policy factory for a given element. The selection policy factory
* will then be asked to create a model selection policy adapter.
* The adapter represents selections from an instance of a model.
* </p>
*
* @see IModelSelectionPolicyFactory
* @since 3.2
*/
public interface IModelSelectionPolicy {
/**
* Returns whether the given selection is contained in
* this model.
*
* @param selection
* @param context
* @return
*/
public boolean contains(ISelection selection, IPresentationContext context);
/**
* Returns whether the candidate selection overrides the
* existing selection. The policy is only asked about selections
* that it contains.
*
* @param existing
* @param candidate
* @param context
* @return
*/
public boolean overrides(ISelection existing, ISelection candidate, IPresentationContext context);
/**
* Returns whether the given selection should be maintained in the
* face of a selection attempt from a different model.
*
* @param selection
* @param context
* @return
*/
public boolean isSticky(ISelection selection, IPresentationContext context);
/**
* Replaces an invalid selection.
* <p>
* This method is called if a model change picked up by a viewer
* results in an invalid selection. For instance if an element contained in
* the selection has been removed from the viewer, the selection policy associated
* with the invalid selection is free to specify a new selection. The default
* selection policy returns the <code>newSelection</code> as is (with missing
* elements removed). Model selection policies may implement a different strategy
* for picking a new selection when the old selection becomes invalid.
* </p>
*
* @param invalidSelection
* the selection before the viewer was updated
* @param newSelection
* the selection after the update, or <code>null</code> if none
* @return new selection or <code>null</code> if none
*/
public ISelection replaceInvalidSelection(ISelection invalidSelection, ISelection newSelection);
}