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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2011 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.db.management;\r
+\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public interface ISessionContextProviderSource {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param context the context object of the requested ISessionContextProvider\r
+ * @return <code>null</code> if there is no provider for the specified context\r
+ */\r
+ ISessionContextProvider get(Object context);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return the currently active session context provider. Must always return\r
+ * a valid provider.\r
+ */\r
+ ISessionContextProvider getActive();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @return all currently existing session context providers \r
+ */\r
+ ISessionContextProvider[] getAll();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Used for manually installing ISessionContextProvider for a specified\r
+ * context handle object.\r
+ * \r
+ * @param context the context handle to associate the session context\r
+ * provider to. This same argument needs to be used with\r
+ * {@link #get(Object)} when retrieving your session context\r
+ * provider.\r
+ * @param provider the session context provider to associate with the\r
+ * specified context\r
+ */\r
+ void put(Object context, ISessionContextProvider provider);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Used for manually removing an (context, provider) association from this\r
+ * source. Only associations created with\r
+ * {@link #put(Object, ISessionContextProvider)} can be removed with this\r
+ * method.\r
+ * \r
+ * @param context the context handle to associate the session context\r
+ * provider to.\r
+ * @return the dissociated session context provider\r
+ */\r
+ ISessionContextProvider remove(Object context);\r
+ \r
+}\r