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1 /*******************************************************************************
2  * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management
3  * in Industry THTH ry.
4  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
5  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
6  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
7  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8  *
9  * Contributors:
10  *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
11  *******************************************************************************/
12 package org.simantics.browsing.ui;
13
14 import java.util.function.Consumer;
15
16 /**
17  * This interface represents anything that can be used to retrieve data through
18  * scheduling of callback objects. It is used in the Graph Explorer for
19  * off-loading of possibly heavy data retrieval tasks into other threads running
20  * in the background from the the UI thread(s).
21  * 
22  * @param <Source>
23  */
24 public interface DataSource<Source> {
25
26     public void schedule(Consumer<Source> callback);
27
28     Class<Source> getProvidedClass();
29
30 }