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* Copyright (c) 2011, Texas Instruments 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:
* Texas Instruments - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core.model.provisional;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;
/**
* This interface should be implemented by context objects that can provide an
* identifier that is unique among other contexts of the same type in a debug
* session, but which will be reused if the underlying thing appears in a future
* debug session. For example, the executable name can typically be used to
* identify that the process context in two successive debug sessions represent
* the same program. Where threads are programatically given meaningful names,
* the thread name can be used to detect that we're dealing with the same thread
* in successive debug sessions. Implementations should stay away from using
* identifiers that are assigned by the underlying runtime system (e.g., PIDs
* and TIDs), since such IDs are often assigned and reused in non-deterministic
* ways.
*
* @author Alain Lee
*/
public interface IRecurringDebugContext {
/**
* Returns the unique identifier associated with this recurring context. If
* this context re-appears in a future debug session, it should return the
* same value.
*/
String getContextID() throws DebugException;
}