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* Copyright (c) 2009 IBM 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:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* Zend Technologies
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.preferences;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* The IXMLPreferencesStorable should be implemented by any class that should
* save or load its properties as XML. This class works with the
* XMLPreferencesWriter and XMLPreferencesReader.
*/
public interface IXMLPreferencesStorable {
/**
* Returns map, that represent this object.
*
* @return map
*/
public Map<String, Object> storeToMap();
/**
* Restores the object from the map.
*
* @param map
*/
public void restoreFromMap(Map<String, Object> map);
}