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| * 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 |
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| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.update.search; |
| |
| /** |
| * This interface is used to encapsulate a particular Update |
| * search pattern. Each search category is free to scan |
| * sites using a specific algorithm. Search category must |
| * have a unique ID. The actual search is performed in |
| * search queries. A category can provide one or more |
| * queries to run during the search. |
| * <p> |
| * <b>Note:</b> This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to |
| * change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback |
| * from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken |
| * (repeatedly) as the API evolves. |
| * </p> |
| * @since 3.0 |
| * @deprecated The org.eclipse.update component has been replaced by Equinox p2. This |
| * provisional API was never promoted to stable API, and may be removed from a future release of the platform. |
| */ |
| public interface IUpdateSearchCategory { |
| /** |
| * Returns the unique identifier of this search category. |
| */ |
| public String getId(); |
| /** |
| * Accepts the identifier assigned to this category during |
| * the registry reading. |
| */ |
| public void setId(String id); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns an array of update search queries that need to |
| * be run during the search. |
| * @return an arry of update search queries |
| */ |
| IUpdateSearchQuery [] getQueries(); |
| } |
