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[simantics/platform.git] / bundles / org.simantics.browsing.ui / src / org / simantics / browsing / ui / DataSource.java

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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
+import java.util.function.Consumer;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * This interface represents anything that can be used to retrieve data through\r
+ * scheduling of callback objects. It is used in the Graph Explorer for\r
+ * off-loading of possibly heavy data retrieval tasks into other threads running\r
+ * in the background from the the UI thread(s).\r
+ * \r
+ * @param <Source>\r
+ */\r
+public interface DataSource<Source> {\r
+\r
+    public void schedule(Consumer<Source> callback);\r
+\r
+    Class<Source> getProvidedClass();\r
+\r
+}\r