/******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2007 g-Eclipse consortium
* 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
*
* Initial development of the original code was made for
* project g-Eclipse founded by European Union
* project number: FP6-IST-034327 http://www.geclipse.eu/
*
* Contributor(s):
* PSNC - Mariusz Wojtysiak
*
*****************************************************************************/
package eu.geclipse.ui.properties;
import org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.IPropertyDescriptor;
/**
* Property shown in Properties view
* @param <ESourceType> type of object, for which property is shown
*
*/
public interface IProperty <ESourceType> {
/**
* @see org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.IPropertySource#getPropertyValue(Object)
*
* @param sourceObject Object, for which property will be displayed
*
* @return Property value
*/
Object getValue( final ESourceType sourceObject );
/**
* @param propSourceClass property source in which this {@link IProperty} object is
* @return property descriptor
*/
IPropertyDescriptor getDescriptor( final Class<? extends AbstractPropertySource<?>> propSourceClass );
/**
* @return true if property containg null value should be shown
*/
boolean isShowEmptyValue();
}