/*

* 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;

import java.util.Map;

/**

 * The interface for a connection factory

 */

public interface IConnectionFactory {

	interface IValidationErrorReporter {

		void setErrorMessage(String newMessage);

	}

	/**

	 * Creates a composite with UI for editing settings, optionally initialized with initialSettings.<br>

	 * @param parent Composite

	 * @param errorReporter IValidationErrorReporter

	 * @param initialSettings Map may be <code>null</code>

	 */

	void createEditingUI(Composite parent, IValidationErrorReporter errorReporter, Map<String, String> initialSettings);

	/**

	 * Returns the settings from the editing UI as name value pairs

	 * @return Map

	 */

	Map<String, String> getSettingsFromUI();

	/**

	 * Create a new connection from settings or default settings if <code>null</code>

	 * @param settings Map may be <code>null</code>

	 * @return IConnection

	 */

	IConnection createConnection(Map<String, String> settings);

}