/******************************************************************************* * 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.lacome; import java.util.List; import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject; import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EStructuralFeature.Setting; /** * Implementations of this interface provide * tracing information between models and copies * of models to Lacome. Lacome works with diagrams * of copied models and sometimes needs to know * how the copies were modified compared to the * original models in order to modify the copied * diagrams accordingly. */ public interface TraceProvider { /** * @param copy a copy of a model element * @return the original model element */ EObject getOriginal(EObject copy); /** * @param element a model element * @return model elements that were replaced by the given element */ List<EObject> getReplacedValues(EObject element); /** * @param element a model element * @return the setting from which the element was removed (if any) */ Setting getRemovedFromSetting(EObject element); /** * @param element a model element * @return all elements from which this element was derived * (e.g., by some kind of model transformation) */ List<EObject> getDerivedFrom(EObject element); }