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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.team.ui.history;
import org.eclipse.team.core.history.IFileHistory;
/**
* This interface provides a way for clients to request the History View
* to display the history for a given object.
*
* <p>
* This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*
* @since 3.2
* @see IFileHistory
* @see IHistoryPage
*/
public interface IHistoryView {
/**
* The id for this view.
* @since 3.3
*/
public static final String VIEW_ID = "org.eclipse.team.ui.GenericHistoryView"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Returns the history page that is currently being displayed by the
* history view.
* TODO: Need to explain what page this is. Is it the visible page?
* @return the history page
*/
public IHistoryPage getHistoryPage();
/**
* Shows the history for the passed in object. If the object is being shown
* in another instance of a history view in the same page as this view, that
* view will be given focus.
*
* @param object
* @return returns the history page that the passed in object is being shown
* in or null if no appropriate page can be found.
*/
public IHistoryPage showHistoryFor(Object object);
}