| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2002, 2004 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 - Initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.core.tools.metadata; |
| |
| import java.io.File; |
| |
| /** |
| * A dumper is an object that knows how to process a given kind of file, |
| * translating it to a human-readable form. |
| */ |
| public interface IDumper { |
| |
| /** |
| * Reads a given file and produces a dump object. Any exception that |
| * may occur during file processing must be caught and stored as |
| * failure reason in the IDump object returned. |
| * |
| * @param file the file to be dumped |
| * @return a dump object representing the contents of the file dumped |
| */ |
| IDump dump(File file); |
| } |
