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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 Association for Decentralized Information Management in\r
+ * 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;\r
+\r
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.IJobManager;\r
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An Eclipse job that inherently belongs to the\r
+ * {@link Simantics#DATABASE_JOB_FAMILY} job family.\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * Use {@link #inProgress()} to check whether there are currently any\r
+ * {@link DatabaseJob}s running in the platform's job manager. Checks should be\r
+ * performed if any synchronous database requests must be initiated in the UI\r
+ * thread but it is not 100% necessary to return an accurate result right at\r
+ * that moment. Performing too much synchronous requests in the UI thread will\r
+ * currently inevitably get the UI completely stuck and therefore offloading\r
+ * database work to database job worker threads is highly recommended.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public abstract class DatabaseJob extends Job {\r
+\r
+ public static final String DATABASE_JOB_FAMILY = "org.simantics.db.inDatabaseJob";\r
+\r
+ public DatabaseJob(String name) {\r
+ super(name);\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ @Override\r
+ public boolean belongsTo(Object family) {\r
+ if (DATABASE_JOB_FAMILY.equals(family))\r
+ return true;\r
+ return super.belongsTo(family);\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ public static boolean inProgress() {\r
+ IJobManager manager = Job.getJobManager();\r
+ Job[] jobs = manager.find(DATABASE_JOB_FAMILY);\r
+ for (Job job : jobs)\r
+ if (job.getState() == Job.RUNNING)\r
+ return true;\r
+ return false;\r
+ }\r
+\r
+}\r