/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Andrew Gvozdev 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:
* Andrew Gvozdev - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.language.settings.providers;
import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICConfigurationDescription;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICLanguageSettingEntry;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
/**
* This interface is to be implemented by providers which want to broadcast the changes in their setting entries
* with {@link ILanguageSettingsChangeEvent}.
*
* @since 5.4
*/
public interface ILanguageSettingsBroadcastingProvider extends ILanguageSettingsProvider {
@Override
public String getId();
@Override
public String getName();
@Override
public List<ICLanguageSettingEntry> getSettingEntries(ICConfigurationDescription cfgDescription, IResource rc, String languageId);
/**
* Return a copy of internal storage. This should be a deep copy/clone of the storage.
* It is used to calculate the delta and being kept in the last state object of configuration
* description to compare to a new state later.
*
* @return a copy of internal storage.
*/
public LanguageSettingsStorage copyStorage();
}