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* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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package org.eclipse.compare.structuremergeviewer;
/**
* Listener that gets informed if one (or more)
* of the three sides of an {@link ICompareInput} object changes its value.
* <p>
* For example when accepting an incoming addition
* the (non-{@code null}) left side of an {@link ICompareInput}
* is copied to the right side (which was {@code null}).
* This triggers a call to {@link #compareInputChanged} of registered
* {@code ICompareInputChangeListener}.
* <p>
* Note however, that listener are not informed if the content of one of the sides changes.
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface. It is also implemented by viewers that take
* an {@link ICompareInput} as input.
* </p>
*/
public interface ICompareInputChangeListener {
/**
* Called whenever the value (not the content) of one or more of the three sides
* of a {@link ICompareInput} has changed.
*
* @param source the {@link ICompareInput} that has changed
*/
void compareInputChanged(ICompareInput source);
}