trace/tracebuilder/com.nokia.tracebuilder/src/com/nokia/tracebuilder/model/TraceModelPersistentExtension.java
/*
* 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:
*
* Interface implemented by trace model extensions that need to store themselves
* into persistent storage along with other model elements
*
*/
package com.nokia.tracebuilder.model;
/**
* Interface implemented by trace model extensions that need to store themselves
* into persistent storage along with other model elements. The storage format
* is left to the implementation. When loading, the trace provider calls
* TraceObjectFactory.createExtension with the storage name. The object factory
* returns an instance of this interface and the provider calls setData to
* initialize this.
*
*/
public interface TraceModelPersistentExtension extends TraceModelExtension {
/**
* Gets the name used when storing this extension
*
* @return the storage name
*/
public String getStorageName();
/**
* Gets the data of this extension
*
* @return the extension data
*/
public String getData();
/**
* Sets the data of this extension
*
* @param data
* the data
* @return true if extension should be added to model, false if not
*/
public boolean setData(String data);
}