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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.disposable;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.utils.threads.IThreadWorkQueue;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * Interface for disposable objects.\r
+ * \r
+ * @see AbstractDisposable for implementation\r
+ * @author Toni Kalajainen\r
+ */\r
+public interface IDisposable {\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Starts dispose procedures. The objects goes into Disposing state\r
+ * while dispose listeners are handled. \r
+ */\r
+ void dispose();\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Dispose if not diposed.\r
+ */\r
+ void safeDispose();\r
+ \r
+ /**\r
+ * Is the object disposed. The return value of this method goes into \r
+ * true status, once dispose() is invoked and all listeners have been\r
+ * processed. \r
+ * \r
+ * @return <code>true</code> if this object has been disposed\r
+ */\r
+ boolean isDisposed();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get objects state in respect to its life cycle.\r
+ * \r
+ * @return current object state\r
+ */\r
+ DisposeState getDisposeState();\r
+ \r
+ void addDisposeListener(IDisposeListener listener);\r
+ void addDisposeListener(IDisposeListener listener, IThreadWorkQueue thread);\r
+ void removeDisposeListener(IDisposeListener listener);\r
+ void removeDisposeListener(IDisposeListener listener, IThreadWorkQueue thread);\r
+ \r
+ \r
+\r
+}\r