EcoTouchBindingProvider.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2010-2016 by the respective copyright holders.
 *
 * 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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 */
package org.openhab.binding.ecotouch;

import org.openhab.core.binding.BindingProvider;

/**
 * @author Sebastian Held <sebastian.held@gmx.de>
 * @since 1.5.0
 */
public interface EcoTouchBindingProvider extends BindingProvider {

    /**
     * Provides an array of all item names of this provider for a given binding
     * type
     * 
     * @param bindingType
     *            the binding type of the items
     * @return an array of all item names of this provider for the given binding
     *         type
     */
    public String[] getItemNamesForType(EcoTouchTags bindingType);

    /**
     * Returns the type for an specific item.
     * 
     * @param itemName
     *            the name of the item (set inside a *.items config file)
     * @return type of this binding
     */
    public EcoTouchTags getTypeForItemName(String itemName);

    /**
     * Provides an array of all active tag names of this provider
     * 
     * @return an array of all active tag names of this provider
     */
    public String[] getActiveTags();

    /**
     * Provides an array of all active items of this provider
     * 
     * @return an array of all active items of this provider
     */
    public EcoTouchTags[] getActiveItems();
}