| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 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.pde.core; |
| |
| import java.io.PrintWriter; |
| |
| /** |
| * Classes that implement this interface can participate in saving the model to |
| * the ASCII output stream using the provided writer. |
| * |
| * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. |
| * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients. |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IWritable { |
| /** |
| * Writes the ASCII representation of the writable into the provider writer. |
| * The writable should use the provided indent to write the stream starting |
| * from the specified column number. Indent string should be written to the |
| * writer after every new line. |
| * |
| * @param indent |
| * a string that should be added after each new line to maintain |
| * desired horizontal alignment |
| * @param writer |
| * a writer to be used to write this object's textual |
| * representation |
| */ |
| void write(String indent, PrintWriter writer); |
| } |
