1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. 3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 7 * 8 * Contributors: 9 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation 10 * 11 *******************************************************************************/ 12 package org.eclipse.update.operations; 13 14 import org.eclipse.update.core.*; 15 16 /** 17 * An installation operation. This operation should not be executed by itself, it should be 18 * aggregated into a IBatchOperation, together with other IInstallOperations, so that the 19 * validation checks are done on the group, not per installation job. 20 * <p> 21 * <b>Note:</b> This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to 22 * change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback 23 * from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken 24 * (repeatedly) as the API evolves. 25 * </p> 26 * @since 3.0 27 */ 28 public interface IInstallFeatureOperation extends IFeatureOperation { 29 /** 30 * If the feature includes optional features, thi method returns the list 31 * of optional features to be installed. 32 * @return the list of optional features to be installed. 33 */ 34 public IFeatureReference[] getOptionalFeatures(); 35 } 36