IVisualizationServiceBase.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2013 University of Mannheim: Chair for Software Engineering
 * 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:
 *    Ralph Gerbig - initial API and implementation and initial documentation
 *******************************************************************************/ 
package de.uni_mannheim.informatik.swt.mlm.workbench.interfaces;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.AdapterFactory;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;

import de.uni_mannheim.informatik.swt.models.plm.PLM.AbstractDSLVisualizer;

/**
 * Interface for services that work with visualizers
 *
 */
public interface IVisualizationServiceBase {

	/**
	 * Returns the ID of the visualization editor
	 * 
	 * @return the ID of the visualization editor
	 */
	public String getVisualizationEditorViewID();
	
	/**
	 * This method can be used to filter the visibility of the visualization
	 * editor view.
	 *
	 * @param element Element to check visibility for
	 * @return whether the element is visible
	 */
	public boolean isVisibleInVisualizerEditorView(EObject element);
	
	/**
	 * 
	 * xxxItemAdapterProviderFactory needed in VisualizationEditorView
	 * 
	 * @return the xxxItemAdapterProviderFactory
	 */
	public AdapterFactory getItemProviderAdapterFactory();
	
	/**
	 * Needed to create the initial dsl initializer in VisualizationEditorView. Once
	 * this is created, the rest can be inferred from the meta-model.
	 * 
	 * @return e.g. GraphicalDSLVisualizer, TextualDSLVisualizer
	 */
	public AbstractDSLVisualizer createNewSpecificDSLVisualizer();
}