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 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management
 * in Industry THTH ry.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.simantics.message;

/**
 * @author Tuukka Lehtonen
 * 
 * @see AbstractMessageSchemeHandler a base implementation
 */
public interface IMessageSchemeHandler {

    /**
     * @return the URI scheme supported by this handler
     */
    String getScheme();

    /**
     * Perform any action on a data reference.
     * 
     * @param o the deserialized object produced by a matching
     *        {@link IReferenceSerializer} implementation
     */
    void perform(Object o) throws MessageSchemeException;

}