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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.browsing.ui;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * A SelectionFilter gives a {@link GraphExplorer} client primitive control over\r
+ * what objects the explorer puts into the selections it provides.\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * Normally, a {@link GraphExplorer} selection contains only {@link NodeContext}\r
+ * instances which exist separately for each separate visible UI element, like a\r
+ * tree node. Presenting an implementation of this interface to an explorer will\r
+ * cause the explorer to filter its selected NodeContexts, one by one, through\r
+ * this interface.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ * \r
+ * @see GraphExplorer#setSelectionFilter(SelectionFilter)\r
+ */\r
+public interface SelectionFilter {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param context the context to filter\r
+ * @return the filtered object\r
+ */\r
+ Object filter(NodeContext context);\r
+\r
+}\r