/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006-2012
* Software Technology Group, Dresden University of Technology
* DevBoost GmbH, Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 140026
*
* 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:
* Software Technology Group - TU Dresden, Germany;
* DevBoost GmbH - Berlin, Germany
* - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.reuseware.coconut.compositionprogram.util;
import org.reuseware.coconut.compositionprogram.DerivedCompositionProgram;
import org.reuseware.coconut.fragment.Fragment;
/**
* An interface that needs to be implemented by extensions for the
* <i>org.reuseware.coconut.compositionprogram.compositionProgramExtractor</i>
* extension point.
*/
public interface CompositionProgramExtractor {
/**
* @param fragment The fragment from which to extract the composition program.
* @return <i>true</i> if this extractor can extract a composition program based on the
* given fragment.
*/
boolean canExtract(
Fragment fragment);
/**
* @param fragment The fragment from which to extract the composition program.
* @return The extracted composition program.
*/
DerivedCompositionProgram extract(
Fragment fragment);
}