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