/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Wind River Systems, Inc. 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Wind River Systems - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.ui.viewmodel;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.concurrent.ConfinedToDsfExecutor;
import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.concurrent.RequestMonitor;
import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.concurrent.ThreadSafe;
/**
* A listener participating in event notifications sent out from VM adapter.
*
* @since 1.1
*/
@ConfinedToDsfExecutor("#getExecutor()")
public interface IVMEventListener {
/**
* Returns the executor that needs to be used to access this event listener.
*/
@ThreadSafe
public Executor getExecutor();
/**
* Process the given event and indicate completion with request monitor.
*/
public void handleEvent(final Object event, RequestMonitor rm);
/**
* Returns whether the event handling manager should wait for this listener
* to complete handling an event given to it via
* {@link #handleEvent(Object, RequestMonitor)}, or whether the event
* listener can process that event asynchronously.
*/
public boolean shouldWaitHandleEventToComplete();
}