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eclipse.core package without osgi dependencies
author Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
date Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:57:19 +0100
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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * 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
+ * Port to the D programming language:
+ *     Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
+ *******************************************************************************/
+module dwtx.core.runtime.IAdaptable;
+
+import dwt.dwthelper.utils;
+
+/**
+ * An interface for an adaptable object.
+ * <p>
+ * Adaptable objects can be dynamically extended to provide different
+ * interfaces (or "adapters").  Adapters are created by adapter
+ * factories, which are in turn managed by type by adapter managers.
+ * </p>
+ * For example,
+ * <pre>
+ *     IAdaptable a = [some adaptable];
+ *     IFoo x = (IFoo)a.getAdapter(IFoo.class);
+ *     if (x !is null)
+ *         [do IFoo things with x]
+ * </pre>
+ * <p>
+ * This interface can be used without OSGi running.
+ * </p><p>
+ * Clients may implement this interface, or obtain a default implementation
+ * of this interface by subclassing <code>PlatformObject</code>.
+ * </p>
+ * @see IAdapterFactory
+ * @see IAdapterManager
+ * @see PlatformObject
+ */
+public interface IAdaptable {
+    /**
+     * Returns an object which is an instance of the given class
+     * associated with this object. Returns <code>null</code> if
+     * no such object can be found.
+     *
+     * @param adapter the adapter class to look up
+     * @return a object castable to the given class,
+     *    or <code>null</code> if this object does not
+     *    have an adapter for the given class
+     */
+    public Object getAdapter(ClassInfo adapter);
+}