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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
+\r
+package org.simantics.utils.datastructures.context;\r
+\r
+import java.util.Collection;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.utils.threads.IThreadWorkQueue;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * Observable container.\r
+ * \r
+ * TODO: add addAll() method\r
+ * \r
+ * @see Context for implementation\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Toni Kalajainen\r
+ * @param <E>\r
+ */\r
+public interface IContext<E> {\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Put an item to the context. \r
+ * @param item\r
+ */\r
+ void add(E item);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Remove an item from the context.\r
+ * @param item \r
+ * @return true if was found and removed\r
+ */\r
+ boolean remove(E item); \r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Checks whether an item is in the context\r
+ * @param item an item\r
+ * @return true if context contains an item\r
+ */\r
+ boolean contains(E item);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Clears all items from the context.\r
+ */\r
+ void clear();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get all items by class\r
+ * @param <R>\r
+ * @param clazz\r
+ * @return collection \r
+ */\r
+ <R extends E> Collection<R> getItemsByClass(Class<R> clazz);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Get a single item by class. \r
+ * (Convenience method)\r
+ * \r
+ * @param <R>\r
+ * @param clazz\r
+ * @return the item \r
+ * @throws RuntimeException if single interactor was not found\r
+ */\r
+ <R extends E> R getSingleItem(Class<R> clazz);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Checks that the context has the item by the class\r
+ * @param <R>\r
+ * @param clazz\r
+ * @return <code>true</code> if contained\r
+ */\r
+ <R> boolean containsItemByClass(Class<R> clazz);\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get a single item by class. \r
+ * (Convenience method)\r
+ * \r
+ * @param <R>\r
+ * @param clazz\r
+ * @return the item or <code>null</code>\r
+ * @throws RuntimeException if more than one items were found\r
+ */\r
+ <R extends E> R getAtMostOneItemOfClass(Class<R> clazz);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Get a snapshot of all the items\r
+ * @return ordered list of items. The highest priority item is the last element.\r
+ */\r
+ E[] toArray();\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * add listener\r
+ * @param listener\r
+ */\r
+ void addContextListener(IContextListener<E> listener);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * remove listener\r
+ * @param listener\r
+ */\r
+ void removeContextListener(IContextListener<E> listener);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * add listener\r
+ * @param thread thread\r
+ * @param listener\r
+ */\r
+ void addContextListener(IThreadWorkQueue thread, IContextListener<E> listener);\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * remove listener\r
+ * @param thread thread\r
+ * @param listener\r
+ */\r
+ void removeContextListener(IThreadWorkQueue thread, IContextListener<E> listener);\r
+ \r
+}\r