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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.ui.views.properties.tabbed; |
| |
| /** |
| * Allows property sheet page contributors to map the input object type to a |
| * domain model type. The domain model type is then used for matching against |
| * the input attribute of the propertySection extension. |
| * <p> |
| * The type mapper is most frequently used to return the type of the model |
| * object when selecting a view object in a workbench part. For example, nodes |
| * in a tree may all be TreeObjects in a structured selection. The type mapper |
| * will take the tree node and return the type of the model object the node |
| * represents. |
| * </p> |
| * <p> |
| * This interface should not be extended or implemented. New type mapper instances |
| * should be created using <code>AbstractTypeMapper</code>. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @author Anthony Hunter |
| */ |
| public interface ITypeMapper { |
| |
| /** |
| * Map the input object to a domain model type. |
| * |
| * @param object |
| * the input object. |
| * @return the type of the input object, mapped to the domain type if |
| * required. |
| */ |
| public Class mapType(Object object); |
| } |
