001 /* 002 Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Renaud Pawlak, Laurent Martelli 003 004 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 005 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 006 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 007 License, or (at your option) any later version. 008 009 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 010 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 011 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 012 Lesser General Public License for more details. 013 014 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 015 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 016 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 017 USA */ 018 019 package org.objectweb.jac.aspects.gui; 020 021 /** 022 * This interface allows views comparison. If both parameters and 023 * types are equals for the compared views, then the two view are 024 * considered as equal. */ 025 026 public interface ViewIdentity { 027 028 /** 029 * Sets the parameters that were used to construct the view. 030 */ 031 void setParameters(Object[] parameters); 032 033 /** 034 * The parameters that were used to compile the view. 035 */ 036 Object[] getParameters(); 037 038 /** 039 * Gets the view type. 040 * 041 * @return view type string as declared in web.acc or swing.acc 042 * depending on the GUI target 043 */ 044 String getType(); 045 046 /** 047 * Set the view type. 048 */ 049 void setType(String type); 050 051 /** 052 * Tells if a view is the same as another one, ie it has the same 053 * type and parameters. 054 */ 055 boolean equalsView(ViewIdentity view); 056 057 boolean equalsView(String type, Object[] parameters); 058 } 059