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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.diagram.handler;\r
+\r
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An additional interface for {@link CopyPasteStrategy} implementation to\r
+ * implement. This can be used to control the set of elements allowed to be\r
+ * copied/cut in the first place.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ * @see CopyPasteStrategy\r
+ * @since 1.23\r
+ */\r
+public interface CopyStrategy {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * @param operation\r
+ * the contents of the intended copy that this method is allowed\r
+ * to modify freely.\r
+ * @return status to indicate whether the copy operation can succeed or not.\r
+ * An OK status indicates the copy operation is ok to commence. Any\r
+ * other status means that the strategy prevented copy the reason\r
+ * shown by the status.\r
+ */\r
+ IStatus copy(CopyOperation operation);\r
+\r
+}\r