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 * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation.
 * 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 Implementation
 *
 *****************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ptp.launch.data;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;

/**
 * Identifies a synchronizatuion rule for the launch job.
 * @author Daniel Ferber
 *
 */

public interface ISynchronizationRule {
	/**
	 * A label to show the rule for debug.
	 * @return The label
	 * @deprecated
	 */
	public String toLabel();
	
	/**
	 * Query if the rule is active and has all required information to be applied.
	 * @return
	 */
	public boolean isActive();
	
	/**
	 * Validate the rule and raise a {@link CoreException} if some attribute is missing
	 * or not valid. The validation does not include check for existing files.
	 */
	public void validate() throws CoreException;
	
	/**
	 * Queries if the tule can be used by launch job after the application finishes execution on the remote host.
	 * @author Daniel Ferber
	 *
	 */
	public boolean isDownloadRule();

	/**
	 * Queries if the rule can be used by launch job before the application starts execution on the remote host.
	 * @author Daniel Ferber
	 *
	 */
	public boolean isUploadRule();
}