OperationAuthorProvider.java

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 * Technische Universitaet Muenchen.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 *
 * Contributors:
 * Maximilian Koegel
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package org.eclipse.emf.emfstore.internal.client.model.changeTracking.merging.util;

import org.eclipse.emf.emfstore.common.ESObserver;
import org.eclipse.emf.emfstore.internal.server.model.versioning.operations.AbstractOperation;

/**
 * Provides the author for a given operation.
 *
 * @author mkoegel
 *
 */
public interface OperationAuthorProvider extends ESObserver {

	/**
	 * Get the author for the given operation.
	 *
	 * @param operation the operation
	 * @return an author String
	 */
	String getAuthor(AbstractOperation operation);

}