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* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui.activities;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* The trigger point advisor is a mechanism provided by the workbench that is
* consulted whenever code that is considered a trigger point is hit. It is the
* role of the advisor to determine what, if any, activities should be enabled
* as a consequence of this action. The advisor also has the option of vetoing
* the operation.
*
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*
* @since 3.1
* @see org.eclipse.ui.activities.ITriggerPoint
*/
public interface ITriggerPointAdvisor {
/**
* Answer whether the activities bound to the identifier should be enabled
* when triggered by the provided trigger point.
*
* @param triggerPoint
* the trigger point to test
* @param identifier
* the identifier to test against the trigger point
* @return the set of activities that should be enabled if this the
* contribution represented by this identifier is to be used. If
* this is not <code>null</code>, the caller can proceed with
* usage of the contribution provided that the collection of
* activities is enabled. If this is <code>null</code>, the
* caller should assume that the operation involving the
* contribution should be aborted. If this method returns the empty
* set then the operation can proceed without any changes to
* activity enablement state. Please note that it is the callers
* responsibility to ensure that the Set returned by this method is
* actually enabled - after setting the enabled state of the
* required activities the change should be verified by consulting
* {@link IActivityManager#getEnabledActivityIds()}.
*/
Set allow(ITriggerPoint triggerPoint, IIdentifier identifier);
/**
* Calculate the identifier's enabled state for a combination of activities
* with and without enabled when core expressions.
*
* @param activityManager
* the activity manager
* @param identifier
* the identifier to update
*
* @return <code>true</code> if this identifier should be enabled,
* <code>false</code> otherwise
* @since 3.4
*/
boolean computeEnablement(IActivityManager activityManager, IIdentifier identifier);
}