1 /*******************************************************************************
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2 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management
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3 * in Industry THTH ry.
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4 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
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5 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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6 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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7 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
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10 * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
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11 *******************************************************************************/
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12 package org.simantics.browsing.ui;
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14 import java.util.function.Consumer;
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17 * This interface represents anything that can be used to retrieve data through
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18 * scheduling of callback objects. It is used in the Graph Explorer for
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19 * off-loading of possibly heavy data retrieval tasks into other threads running
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20 * in the background from the the UI thread(s).
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24 public interface DataSource<Source> {
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26 public void schedule(Consumer<Source> callback);
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28 Class<Source> getProvidedClass();
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