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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
 *     Stefan Xenos, IBM - initial API and implementation
 *     Matthew Hall - bug 207858
 *******************************************************************************/
module org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.viewers.IParentProvider;

import java.lang.all;

/**
 * NON-API - Returns the parent of elements in a tree.
 * 
 * @since 1.1
 */
public interface IParentProvider {
    
    /**
     * Returns the parent of the passed in child element, or null if unknown.
     * 
     * @param child
     *            the child element
     * @return the parent of the passed in child element, or null if unknown.
     */
    public Object getParent(Object child);
}