/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006-2012
* Software Technology Group, Dresden University of Technology
* DevBoost GmbH, Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 140026
*
* 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:
* Software Technology Group - TU Dresden, Germany;
* DevBoost GmbH - Berlin, Germany
* - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.reuseware.coconut.ui;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resource;
/**
* Interface to be implemented by diagram initializers. A diagram initializer
* can create a diagram for a given model. It is used if a user selects to open
* a model as diagram and there is currently no diagram available.
*/
public interface DiagramInitializer {
/**
* @param modelResource resource holding the model
* @return true if a diagram for the given model can be created by this initializer
*/
boolean canInitializeDiagramFor(Resource modelResource);
/**
* Initialize a diagram for the given model.
*
* @param modelResource resource holding the model
* @return resource holding the newly created diagram
*/
Resource initializeDiagram(Resource modelResource);
}