/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008, 2011 Obeo.
 * 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:
 *     Obeo - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.emf.eef.runtime.context;

import java.util.List;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.AdapterFactory;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.change.util.ChangeRecorder;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.ResourceSet;
import org.eclipse.emf.eef.runtime.ui.widgets.settings.EEFEditorSettings;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:goulwen.lefur@obeo.fr">Goulwen Le Fur</a>
 * use {@link ExtendedPropertiesEditingContext} instead of this interface.
 */
public interface PropertiesEditingContext {

	/**
	 * Intialize the ChangeRecorder of the editing session.
	 */
	public void initializeRecorder();
	
	/**
	 * @return the changeRecorder of the editing session
	 */
	public ChangeRecorder getChangeRecorder();

	/**
	 * Dispose and "nullify" the nested change recorder 
	 */
	public void disposeRecorder();

	/**
	 * @return the currently edited {@link EObject}.
	 */
	public EObject getEObject();
	
	/**
	 * @return the resourceSet where to work.
	 */
	public ResourceSet getResourceSet();

	/**
	 * @return the {@link AdapterFactory} to use during the editing.
	 */
	public AdapterFactory getAdapterFactory();

	/**
	 * dispose the context
	 */
	public void dispose();
	
	/**
	 * @return the parentContext
	 */
	public PropertiesEditingContext getParentContext();

	/**
	 * @param eObject
	 */
	public void seteObject(EObject eObject);

	
}