/*

* Copyright (c) 2007 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description:

*

* Creates trace objects and provides configurable rules for trace object creation

*

*/

package com.nokia.tracecompiler.model;

/**

 * Allows registration of rules into the trace object factory

 * 

 */

public interface TraceObjectRuleFactory {

	/**

	 * Called before the rules of a new object are processed by object factory

	 * 

	 * @param object

	 *            new object

	 */

	public void preProcessNewRules(TraceObject object);

	/**

	 * Called after the rules of a new object are processed by object factory

	 * 

	 * @param object

	 *            new object

	 */

	public void postProcessNewRules(TraceObject object);

	/**

	 * Creates an extension based on extension name

	 * 

	 * @param object

	 *            the target object

	 * @param name

	 *            the name of the extension

	 * @return the new extension

	 */

	public TraceModelPersistentExtension createExtension(TraceObject object,

			String name);

}