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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 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:
+ * Semantum Oy - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.simantics.modeling.ui.diagramEditor.dnd;
+
+import org.simantics.db.WriteGraph;
+import org.simantics.db.exception.DatabaseException;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a suggestion of a fix/change that must be made to the target model
+ * before actually performing the element to diagram drop database changes.
+ *
+ * The {@link #toString()} method should return a clear description of the
+ * suggested fix/change.
+ *
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen
+ * @since 1.37.0
+ */
+public interface DropSuggestion {
+
+ /**
+ * Perform the suggested database fix/change encapsulated by this instance.
+ *
+ * @param graph
+ * @throws DatabaseException
+ */
+ void fix(WriteGraph graph) throws DatabaseException;
+
+ /**
+ * @return a clear end-user readable description of the suggested fix/change
+ */
+ @Override
+ String toString();
+
+}