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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.browsing.ui.common.processors;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.browsing.ui.GraphExplorer;\r
+import org.simantics.browsing.ui.PrimitiveQueryProcessor;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An interface that {@link PrimitiveQueryProcessor} implementations may\r
+ * implement in order to receive lifecycle-related notifications that can be\r
+ * used e.g. for internal housekeeping.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public interface ProcessorLifecycle {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * This processor has been attached to the specified {@link GraphExplorer}\r
+ * via {@link GraphExplorer#setPrimitiveProcessor(PrimitiveQueryProcessor)}\r
+ * \r
+ * @param explorer the explorer to which this processor was just attached\r
+ */\r
+ void attached(GraphExplorer explorer);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * This processor has been detached from the specified {@link GraphExplorer}\r
+ * for one of these reasons:\r
+ * <ul>\r
+ * <li>replaced by another {@link PrimitiveQueryProcessor} through an\r
+ * invocation to\r
+ * {@link GraphExplorer#setPrimitiveProcessor(PrimitiveQueryProcessor)}</li>\r
+ * <li>the graph explorer was disposed and all primitive processors are\r
+ * being detached from it</li>\r
+ * </ul>\r
+ * \r
+ * @param explorer the explorer from which this processor was just detached\r
+ */\r
+ void detached(GraphExplorer explorer);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Invoked by GraphExplorer when its input is reset through\r
+ * {@link GraphExplorer#setRoot(Object)}. Allows the processor to do\r
+ * cleanup if necessary, e.g. for internal caches.\r
+ */\r
+ void clear();\r
+\r
+}\r