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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011, 2019 Mia-Software and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
*
* Contributors:
* Fabien Giquel (Mia-Software) - initial API and implementation
* Nicolas Guyomar (Mia-Software) - Bug 334546 - [celleditors] no border on Text field
* Nicolas Bros (Mia-Software) - Bug 338437 - compositeEditors extension point cannot be used to register user types
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.modisco.facet.widgets.celleditors;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
/**
* The factory interface for creating some control
* {@link AbstractCellEditorComposite} dedicated to the edition of one java
* type. The developer should register some factories using the dedicated
* extension point "compositeEditors"
*
* @param <T>
* the java type managed by this composite editor factory.
*/
public interface ICompositeEditorFactory<T> {
/**
* @return the type handled by the composite editors created by this factory. This method is
* required because of type erasure with Java generics.
*/
Class<T> getHandledType();
/**
* Create a cell editor composite for a value of type &lt;T&gt;, as a subclass of
* {@link AbstractCellEditorComposite}, which is a SWT {@link Composite} suited for use as an
* in-place editor for values of type &lt;T&gt;.
*
* @param parent
* the SWT parent of the new composite
* @param style
* SWT style bits ({@link SWT#BORDER}, etc.)
* @return the new cell editor composite
*/
AbstractCellEditorComposite<T> createCompositeEditor(Composite parent, int style);
}