ViewIdentity


1   /*
2     Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Renaud Pawlak, Laurent Martelli
3     
4     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5     it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
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7     License, or (at your option) any later version.
8   
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12    Lesser General Public License for more details.
13  
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18  
19  package org.objectweb.jac.aspects.gui;
20  
21  /**
22   * This interface allows views comparison. If both parameters and
23   * types are equals for the compared views, then the two view are
24   * considered as equal. */
25  
26  public interface ViewIdentity {
27  
28      /**
29       * Sets the parameters that were used to construct the view. 
30       */
31      void setParameters(Object  [] parameters);
32  
33      /**
34       * The parameters that were used to compile the view. 
35       */
36      Object  [] getParameters();
37  
38      /**
39       * Gets the view type.
40       *
41       * @return view type string as declared in web.acc or swing.acc
42       * depending on the GUI target 
43       */
44      String   getType();
45  
46      /**
47       * Set the view type. 
48       */
49      void setType(String   type);
50      
51      /**
52       * Tells if a view is the same as another one, ie it has the same
53       * type and parameters.
54       */
55      boolean equalsView(ViewIdentity view);
56  
57      boolean equalsView(String   type, Object  [] parameters);
58  }
59  
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