org.eclipse.xwt/src/org/eclipse/xwt/IDataProviderFactory.java

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package org.eclipse.xwt;

/**
 * 
 * @author yyang (yves.yang@soyatec.com)
 */
public interface IDataProviderFactory {
	/**
	 * The type of the Data provider
	 * @return
	 */
	Class<?> getType();

	/**
	 * 
	 * @param dataContext
	 * @return null if this factory doesn't match with the data context
	 */
	IDataProvider create(Object dataContext);
}