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* Copyright (c) 2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of the License "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: 

*

*/

package com.nokia.carbide.remoteconnections.interfaces;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;

/**

 * The user interface for picking or defining a connection to use that can be added to client service user interfaces.

 * <p>

 * This variant allows selecting a "default connection" which will map to the currently selected default at runtime.

 * <p>

 * This requires that you use {@link IConnectionsManager#ensureConnection(String, IService)}

 * to map from a persisted connection identifier to an IConnection.  Do not rely on "validating"

 * the identifier manually by iterating the {@link IConnectionsManager#getConnections()}!

 * @noimplement

 * @noextend

 * @since 3.0

 */

public interface IClientServiceSiteUI2 {

	/**

	 * A listener interface to allow client sites to be notified when a new connection is selected

	 */

	public interface IListener {

		void connectionSelected();

	}

	/**

	 * Create the composite with the client site UI for IService

	 * @param parent Composite

	 */

	void createComposite(Composite parent);

	/**

	 * Select a specific connection object - must be called after create composite

	 * @param connection the connection id or <code>null</code>

	 */

	void selectConnection(String connection);

	/**

	 * Return the selected connection object - may be called after UI is disposed.

	 * <p>

	 * Do not expect to find this identifier in the {@link IConnectionsManager#getConnections()} list.  

	 * Instead, use {@link IConnectionsManager#ensureConnection(String, IService)} to find

	 * the actual IConnection at runtime.

	 * @return the connection id, which may represent a "default".  

	 */

	String getSelectedConnection();

	/**

	 * Get the display name of the selected connection id

	 * @param connection the connection id

	 * @return String, never <code>null</code>

	 */

	String getConnectionDisplayName(String connection);

	/**

	 * Adds a listener to the client site UI

	 * @param listener IListener

	 */

	void addListener(IListener listener);

	/**

	 * Removes a listener from the client site UI

	 * @param listener IListener

	 */

	void removeListener(IListener listener);

}