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* Copyright (c) 2009, 2015 Ovidio Mallo 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:
* Ovidio Mallo - initial API and implementation (bug 248877)
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.databinding.dialog;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.ValidationStatusProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IMessageProvider;
/**
* Simple interface to provide a validation message text and a message type for
* a given {@link ValidationStatusProvider}.
*
* <p>
* Can be used in dialogs to display a message text along with an icon
* reflecting the validation status.
* </p>
*
* @since 1.4
*/
public interface IValidationMessageProvider {
/**
* Returns the validation message text for the given validation status
* provider.
*
* @param statusProvider
* the {@link ValidationStatusProvider} for which to provide a
* message text. May be <code>null</code>.
* @return The validation message text for the given
* <code>validationStatusProvider</code>. May be <code>null</code>.
*/
public String getMessage(ValidationStatusProvider statusProvider);
/**
* Returns the validation message type as one of the constants defined in
* {@link IMessageProvider} for the given validation status provider.
*
* @param statusProvider
* the {@link ValidationStatusProvider} for which to provide a
* message type. May be <code>null</code>.
* @return The validation message type for the given
* <code>validationStatusProvider</code>.
*/
public int getMessageType(ValidationStatusProvider statusProvider);
}