IViewSite.java

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package org.eclipse.ui;

/**
 * The primary interface between a view part and the workbench.
 * <p>
 * The workbench exposes its implemention of view part sites via this interface,
 * which is not intended to be implemented or extended by clients.
 * </p>
 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 */
public interface IViewSite extends IWorkbenchPartSite {

    /**
     * Returns the action bars for this part site.
     * Views have exclusive use of their site's action bars.
     *
     * @return the action bars
     */
    public IActionBars getActionBars();

    /**
     * Returns the secondary id for this part site's part,
     * or <code>null</code> if it has none.
     * 
     * @see IWorkbenchPage#showView(String, String, int)
     * @since 3.0
     */
    public String getSecondaryId();
}