IMenuExtendible.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2013 RelationWare, Benno Luthiger
 * 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:
 * RelationWare, Benno Luthiger
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.ripla.interfaces;

import org.ripla.util.ExtendibleMenuMarker;

/**
 * Interface for Ripla menu variants that are extendible.<br />
 * Bundles can provide menu contributions to extendible menus.
 * 
 * @author Luthiger
 */
public interface IMenuExtendible extends IMenuItem {

	/**
	 * @return String the extendible menu's ID. Must be unique for that bundles
	 *         that want to make contributions to this menu can look it up.
	 */
	String getMenuID();

	/**
	 * @return {@link ExtendibleMenuMarker}[] the array of markers this menu
	 *         defines to which a contribution can be attached.
	 */
	ExtendibleMenuMarker[] getMarkers();

}