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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.g2d.diagram.handler;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.g2d.diagram.IDiagram;\r
+import org.simantics.g2d.element.ElementClass;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * HACK mechanism TODO REMOVE\r
+ * \r
+ * The purpose of this handler is to create a element class from an existing one\r
+ * in such a way that it is compiled to be used with the specified diagram.\r
+ * \r
+ * This is hacky, but is at the moment needed for copying elements from one\r
+ * diagram to another because the element classes sometimes need to be augmented\r
+ * with diagram specified handlers.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public interface SubstituteElementClass extends DiagramHandler {\r
+\r
+ ElementClass substitute(IDiagram d, ElementClass ec);\r
+\r
+}\r