HeatPumpBindingProvider.java

/**
 * 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.novelanheatpump;

import org.openhab.core.binding.BindingProvider;

/**
 * This interface is implemented by classes that can map openHAB items to
 * Novelan (Siemens) Heatpump binding types.
 *
 * Implementing classes should register themselves as a service in order to be
 * taken into account.
 *
 * @author Jan-Philipp Bolle
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public interface HeatPumpBindingProvider 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(HeatpumpCommandType bindingType);
}