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10 * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
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12 package org.simantics.browsing.ui;
14 import java.util.function.Consumer;
17 * This interface represents anything that can be used to retrieve data through
18 * scheduling of callback objects. It is used in the Graph Explorer for
19 * off-loading of possibly heavy data retrieval tasks into other threads running
20 * in the background from the the UI thread(s).
24 public interface DataSource<Source> {
26 public void schedule(Consumer<Source> callback);
28 Class<Source> getProvidedClass();