eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/view/ICdmViewer.java

   1 // $Id$
   2 /**
   3 * Copyright (C) 2015 EDIT
   4 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
   5 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
   6 *
   7 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
   8 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
   9 */
  10 package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.view;
  11
  12 import java.util.Map;
  13
  14
  15 /**
  16  * Implementors of this interface provide a mapping of input elements to views
  17  * or editors which can display information or provide editing functionality for
  18  * the input elements.
  19  *
  20  * @author pplitzner
  21  * @date Feb 23, 2015
  22  *
  23  */
  24 public interface ICdmViewer {
  25
  26     /**
  27      * For the given input a map is returned specifying the available viewer
  28      * classes as keys and their string representation as values
  29      *
  30      * @param input
  31      *            the input for which the viewer classes should be returned
  32      * @return a map holding the viewer classes as keys and their string
  33      *         representations as values
  34      */
  35     public Map<Class<?>, String> getViewerClasses(Object input);
  36
  37     /**
  38      * Opens the viewer defined by the given viewerClass for the given input.
  39      * @param input the input for which a viewer should be opened
  40      * @param viewerClass the qualified class name of the viewer
  41      */
  42     public void show(Object input, Class<?> viewerClass);
  43
  44 }