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author | Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de> |
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date | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:23:29 +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 org.eclipse.core.runtime.IAdaptable; import java.lang.all; /** * 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); }