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            <element ref="cdmViewer" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

   <element name="cdmViewer">

      <annotation>

         <documentation>

            A Cdm Viewer knows what viewer or editor can show which input.

         </documentation>

      </annotation>

      <complexType>

         <sequence>

         </sequence>

         <attribute name="class" type="string" use="required">

            <annotation>

               <documentation>

                  The class of the viewer.

               </documentation>

               <appInfo>

                  <meta.attribute kind="java" basedOn=":eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.view.ICdmViewer"/>

               </appInfo>

            </annotation>

         </attribute>

      </complexType>

   </element>

// $Id$

/**

* Copyright (C) 2015 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

*

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.view;

import java.util.Map;

/**

 * Implementors of this interface provide a mapping of input elements to views

 * or editors which can display information or provide editing functionality for

 * the input elements.

 *

 * @author pplitzner

 * @date Feb 23, 2015

 *

 */

public interface ICdmViewer {

    /**

     * For the given input a map is returned specifying the available viewer

     * classes as keys and their string representation as values

     *

     * @param input

     *            the input for which the viewer classes should be returned

     * @return a map holding the viewer classes as keys and their string

     *         representations as values

     */

    public Map<Class<?>, String> getViewerClasses(Object input);

    /**

     * Opens the viewer defined by the given viewerClass for the given input.

     * @param input the input for which a viewer should be opened

     * @param viewerClass the qualified class name of the viewer

     */

    public void show(Object input, Class<?> viewerClass);

}