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Added trees for databinding.beans and observable
author Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
date Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:55:51 +0200
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1 /*******************************************************************************
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2 * Copyright (c) 2006, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
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3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
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4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
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7 *
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8 * Contributors:
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9 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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10 *******************************************************************************/
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12 package org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable;
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14 import java.util.Collection;
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16 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.list.IObservableList;
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17 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.set.IObservableSet;
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19 /**
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20 * Interface for observable collections. Only general change listeners can be
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21 * added to an observable collection. Listeners interested in incremental
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22 * changes have to be added using more concrete subtypes such as
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23 * {@link IObservableList} or {@link IObservableSet}.
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24 *
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25 * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
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26 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
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27 * Clients should instead subclass one of the classes that
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28 * implement this interface. Note that direct implementers of this
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29 * interface outside of the framework will be broken in future
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30 * releases when methods are added to this interface.
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31 * </p>
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32 *
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33 * @since 1.0
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34 */
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35 public interface IObservableCollection : IObservable, Collection {
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37 /**
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38 * @return the element type of this observable value, or <code>null</code>
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39 * if this observable collection is untyped.
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40 */
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41 Object getElementType();
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43 }