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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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.update.core;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.*;
/**
* Site Feature reference.
* A reference to a feature on a particular update site.
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface. However, in most cases clients should
* directly instantiate or subclass the provided implementation of this
* interface.
* </p>
* <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>
* @see org.eclipse.update.core.SiteFeatureReference
* @since 2.1
* @deprecated The org.eclipse.update component has been replaced by Equinox p2.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 ISiteFeatureReference extends IFeatureReference, IAdaptable {
/**
* Returns an array of categories the referenced feature belong to.
*
* @return an array of categories, or an empty array
* @since 2.1
*/
public ICategory[] getCategories();
/**
* Adds a category to the referenced feature.
*
* @param category new category
* @since 2.1
*/
public void addCategory(ICategory category);
}