/*

* Copyright (c) 2009 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.sdt.component.property;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;

import org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.IPropertySource;

	/**

	 * IEditableValueConverter acts as a bridge between compound

	 * property values and editable values. Given a compound

	 * property it supplies an editable value, and given an editable

	 * value it stores it back to the property

	 */

public interface ICompoundPropertyValueConverter {

	/**

	 * Create an editable value, suitable for passing

	 * as input to a cell editor.

	 * @param object the source instance, or null

	 * @param propertyValue may be a simple value, e.g. String,

	 * or, for a compound property, an IPropertySource 

	 */

	Object getEditableValue(EObject object, IPropertySource propertyValue);

	/**

	 * Applies an editable value back to an IPropertySource. If the

	 * property is an array then this will be an ISequencePropertySource

	 * @param object the source instance, or null

	 * @param editableValue the value returned by a cell editor

	 * @param propertySource the target property. It may be an ISequencePropertySource

	 */

	void applyEditableValue(EObject object, Object editableValue, IPropertySource propertySource);

}