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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.db.common.provider;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.db.ReadGraph;\r
+import org.simantics.db.Resource;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An interface for externalizing the logic of retrieving an arbitrary resource\r
+ * for some purpose.\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * A {@link ReadGraph} is provided to allow implementations to browse the graph\r
+ * in order to retrieve a resource.\r
+ * </p>\r
+ * \r
+ * <p>\r
+ * This interface has an asynchronously operating counterpart, {@link AsyncResourceProvider}.\r
+ * </p>\r
+ * \r
+ * @see ResourceProviders\r
+ * @see AsyncResourceProvider\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public interface ResourceProvider {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param graph a graph for retrieving the resource to return\r
+ * @return the provided resource\r
+ */\r
+ Resource get(ReadGraph graph);\r
+\r
+}\r