/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
* Distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
* This program is made available under the terms of the
* Eclipse License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
* and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.kie.eclipse.navigator.view.content;
import java.util.List;
public interface IContainerNode<T extends IContainerNode<?>> extends IContentNode<T> {
/**
* @return the children of this container.
*/
List<? extends IContentNode<?>> getChildren();
/**
* Loads the content of this container. This method is invoked by the
* content provider if getChildren() returns null.
*/
void load();
/**
* Clears the children of this container. After this method has been
* invoked, getChildren() must return null. This method is called when a
* refresh is requested.
*/
void clearChildren();
/**
* Check if a node has child nodes. This may be false if the node itself has
* not been resolved, e.g. a RepositoryNode has not been resolved to a cloned
* local repository, or a ProjectNode has not resolved to a workspace IProject
*
* @return true if this node has children
*/
boolean hasChildren();
/**
* Returns the Drools/jBPM runtime ID currently deployed on the Server.
*
* @return Runtime ID string. This is unique for a version of Drools/jBPM.
*/
String getRuntimeId();
}