IExtendedFilterProvider.java

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package org.eclipse.tracecompass.tmf.ui.views.uml2sd.handlers.provider;

import org.eclipse.jface.action.Action;

/**
 * Interface for providing an extended filter provider.
 *
 * Sequence Diagram loaders which implement this interface provide the action for filtering the sequence diagram.<br>
 *
 * Action provider are associated to a Sequence Diagram view by calling <code>SDView.setExtendedFilterProvider</code><br>
 *
 * @version 1.0
 * @author sveyrier
 *
 */
public interface IExtendedFilterProvider {

    /**
     * Returns a filter action implementation.
     *
     * @return a filter action implementation
     */
    Action getFilterAction();

}