/******************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 2013 Jonah Graham
*
* 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
*
* Contributors:
* Jonah Graham <jonah@kichwacoders.com> - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.python.pydev.ui.pythonpathconf;
/**
* A factory for creating {@link IInterpreterProvider}s
*
* Instances of this class should be registered with the
* org.python.pydev.pydev_interpreter_provider extension point.
*/
public interface IInterpreterProviderFactory {
/**
* Possible types of Interpreters that a factory can create providers for.
*/
public enum InterpreterType {
PYTHON, JYTHON, IRONPYTHON
}
/**
* Create a (possibly empty or <code>null</code>) array of
* {@link IInterpreterProvider}s that contain information about current, or
* potential, Python installations of type <code>type</code>
*
* @param type
* the type of Interpreter to create providers for
* @return Array of possible providers. Can be empty or null if no providers
* for given type can be created.
*/
public IInterpreterProvider[] getInterpreterProviders(InterpreterType type);
}