/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2007, 2009 Intel Corporation and others.
* 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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*
* Contributors:
* Intel Corporation - Initial API and implementation
* James Blackburn (Broadcom Corp.)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.extension;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.CExternalSetting;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICConfigurationDescription;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
/**
* Abstract base class for the External Settings Provider extension point. Contributed
* external settings are added to the Project's build configuration.
*/
public abstract class CExternalSettingProvider {
/**
* Hook for fetching external settings from the contributed external setting provider
* @param project
* @param cfg ICConfigurationDescription for which to fetch contributed external settings
* @return CExternalSetting[] or contributed external settings
*/
public abstract CExternalSetting[] getSettings(IProject project, ICConfigurationDescription cfg);
/**
* Hook for fetching external settings from the contributed external settings provider.
* This call-back provides the previous version of the settings as cached by cdt.core
*
* @param project IProject
* @param cfg ICConfigurationDescription for which to fetch contributed external settings
* @param previousSettings external settings as cached by cdt.core for this {@link CExternalSettingProvider}
* or an empty array
* @return CExternalSetting[] of contributed external settings
* @since 5.2
*/
public CExternalSetting[] getSettings(IProject project, ICConfigurationDescription cfg,
CExternalSetting[] previousSettings) {
return getSettings(project, cfg);
}
}