/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.simantics.proconf.g3d.base;

import org.simantics.layer0.utils.IEntity;


/**
 * Interface for geometryProviders
 * 
 * TODO : instead of using Geometry array, create class that is passed through
 * TODO : Current animation system links resources; what about code generated meshes ?
 * 
 * @author Marko Luukkainen
 *
 */
public interface GeometryProvider {
    
	/**
	 * Used to check if GeometryProvider can generate mesh
	 * @param instance
	 * @return
	 */
    public boolean canHandle(IEntity instance);
	
    /**
     * Generates mesh
     * @param instance
     * @param transform
     * @return
     */
    public com.jme.scene.Geometry[] getGeometryFromResource(IEntity instance, boolean transform);
    
    /**
     * Updates mesh
     * @param instance
     * @param transform
     * @param geometry
     * @return
     */
    public boolean reconstructGeometry(IEntity instance, boolean transform, com.jme.scene.Geometry[] geometry);
}