| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2011 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.compare.contentmergeviewer; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.compare.IEditableContent; |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor; |
| import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument; |
| |
| /** |
| * Interface which provides the ability to flush the contents from the viewer |
| * model (for example, an {@link IDocument} for text based content) into the |
| * underlying compare model ( most likely an instance of {@link IEditableContent}). |
| * <p> |
| * This interface may be implemented by clients. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @since 3.3 |
| */ |
| public interface IFlushable { |
| |
| /** |
| * Request that the view contents be flushed to the underlying compare input. |
| * Depending on the type of input, this may result in the contents being written |
| * into the underlying model (e.g. file) as well. |
| * @param monitor a progress monitor or <code>null</code> if progress reporting is not desired |
| */ |
| void flush(IProgressMonitor monitor); |
| } |
