/*****************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008 g-Eclipse Consortium
* 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
*
* Initial development of the original code was made for the
* g-Eclipse project founded by European Union
* project number: FP6-IST-034327 http://www.geclipse.eu/
*
* Contributors:
* Mathias Stuempert - initial API and implementation
*****************************************************************************/
package eu.geclipse.core.model;
/**
* This class is used by the eu.geclipse.core.gridElementCreator extension point
* in order to match a source object against a specific element creator.
*/
public interface ICreatorSourceMatcher {
/**
* Matcher method that determines if the corresponding
* {@link IGridElementCreator} can create an IGridElement from the specified
* object.
*
* @param source The object from which to create an element.
* @return True if the corresponding creator is potentially able to
* create elements from the specified object.
*/
public boolean canCreate( final Object source );
}