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* Copyright (c) 2008 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
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*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.erlide.ui.util.eclipse.text;
/**
* A browser input contains an input element and a previous and a next input, if
* available.
*
* The browser input also provides a human readable name of its input element.
*
* @since 3.4
*/
public abstract class BrowserInput {
private final BrowserInput fPrevious;
private BrowserInput fNext;
/**
* Create a new Browser input.
*
* @param previous
* the input previous to this or <code>null</code> if this is the
* first
*/
public BrowserInput(final BrowserInput previous) {
fPrevious = previous;
if (previous != null) {
previous.fNext = this;
}
}
/**
* The previous input or <code>null</code> if this is the first.
*
* @return the previous input or <code>null</code>
*/
public BrowserInput getPrevious() {
return fPrevious;
}
/**
* The next input or <code>null</code> if this is the last.
*
* @return the next input or <code>null</code>
*/
public BrowserInput getNext() {
return fNext;
}
/**
* The element to use to set the browsers input.
*
* @return the input element
*/
public abstract Object getInputElement();
/**
* A human readable name for the input.
*
* @return the input name
*/
public abstract String getInputName();
}