uidesigner/com.nokia.sdt.uimodel/src/com/nokia/sdt/component/property/ICompoundPropertyValueConverter.java
Keeping PlatSim internal only.
/*
* 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);
}