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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.layer0.adapter;\r
+\r
+import java.util.Map;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.db.ReadGraph;\r
+import org.simantics.db.WriteGraph;\r
+import org.simantics.db.exception.DatabaseException;\r
+import org.simantics.db.layer0.adapter.impl.AbstractRemover;\r
+import org.simantics.db.layer0.util.RemoverUtil;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * This is a preliminary interface for making resource removal adapter-driven.\r
+ * Adapt a resource to {@link Remover} to specify a custom logic for removing a\r
+ * certain resource or a certain type of resource. A Remover is not reusable to\r
+ * prevent it from being reused invalidly for unexpected inputs.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ * \r
+ * @see AbstractRemover\r
+ * @see RemoverUtil\r
+ */\r
+public interface Remover {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param graph\r
+ * @param aux auxiliary data storage that may be used when invoking\r
+ * {@link #canRemove(ReadGraph, Map)} recursively\r
+ * @return <code>null</code> indicates removal ok, otherwise the result\r
+ * describes the problems.\r
+ * @throws DatabaseException\r
+ * @since 1.6\r
+ */\r
+ String canRemove(ReadGraph graph, Map<Object, Object> aux) throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param graph\r
+ * @throws DatabaseException\r
+ */\r
+ void remove(WriteGraph graph) throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+}\r