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+/**********************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * IBM Corporation - Initial API and implementation
+ **********************************************************************/
+package net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.wiki.internal;
+
+import java.util.List;
+/**
+ * Interface to a memento used for saving the important state of an object
+ * in a form that can be persisted in the file system.
+ * <p>
+ * Mementos were designed with the following requirements in mind:
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>Certain objects need to be saved and restored across platform sessions.
+ * </li>
+ * <li>When an object is restored, an appropriate class for an object might not
+ * be available. It must be possible to skip an object in this case.</li>
+ * <li>When an object is restored, the appropriate class for the object may be
+ * different from the one when the object was originally saved. If so, the
+ * new class should still be able to read the old form of the data.</li>
+ * </ol>
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Mementos meet these requirements by providing support for storing a
+ * mapping of arbitrary string keys to primitive values, and by allowing
+ * mementos to have other mementos as children (arranged into a tree).
+ * A robust external storage format based on XML is used.
+ * </p><p>
+ * The key for an attribute may be any alpha numeric value. However, the
+ * value of <code>TAG_ID</code> is reserved for internal use.
+ * </p><p>
+ * This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @see IPersistableElement
+ * @see IElementFactory
+ */
+public interface IMemento {
+ /**
+ * Special reserved key used to store the memento id
+ * (value <code>"org.eclipse.ui.id"</code>).
+ *
+ * @see #getId
+ */
+ public static final String TAG_ID = "IMemento.internal.id"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new child of this memento with the given fType.
+ * <p>
+ * The <code>getChild</code> and <code>getChildren</code> methods
+ * are used to retrieve children of a given fType.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @param fType the fType
+ * @return a new child memento
+ * @see #getChild
+ * @see #getChildren
+ */
+ public IMemento createChild(String type);
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new child of this memento with the given fType and id.
+ * The id is stored in the child memento (using a special reserved
+ * key, <code>TAG_ID</code>) and can be retrieved using <code>getId</code>.
+ * <p>
+ * The <code>getChild</code> and <code>getChildren</code> methods
+ * are used to retrieve children of a given fType.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @param fType the fType
+ * @param id the child id
+ * @return a new child memento with the given fType and id
+ * @see #getId
+ */
+ public IMemento createChild(String type, String id);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the first child with the given fType id.
+ *
+ * @param fType the fType id
+ * @return the first child with the given fType
+ */
+ public IMemento getChild(String type);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns all children with the given fType id.
+ *
+ * @param fType the fType id
+ * @return the list of children with the given fType
+ */
+ public IMemento[] getChildren(String type);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the floating point value of the given key.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @return the value, or <code>null</code> if the key was not found or was found
+ * but was not a floating point number
+ */
+ public Float getFloat(String key);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the id for this memento.
+ *
+ * @return the memento id, or <code>null</code> if none
+ * @see #createChild(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
+ */
+ public String getId();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the name for this memento.
+ *
+ * @return the memento name, or <code>null</code> if none
+ * @see #createChild(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
+ */
+ public String getName();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the integer value of the given key.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @return the value, or <code>null</code> if the key was not found or was found
+ * but was not an integer
+ */
+ public Integer getInteger(String key);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the string value of the given key.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @return the value, or <code>null</code> if the key was not found or was found
+ * but was not an integer
+ */
+ public String getString(String key);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the boolean value of the given key.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @return the value, or <code>null</code> if the key was not found or was found
+ * but was not a boolean
+ */
+ public Boolean getBoolean(String key);
+
+ public List getNames();
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the value of the given key to the given floating point number.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @param value the value
+ */
+ public void putFloat(String key, float value);
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the value of the given key to the given integer.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @param value the value
+ */
+ public void putInteger(String key, int value);
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the value of the given key to the given boolean value.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @param value the value
+ */
+ public void putBoolean(String key, boolean value);
+
+ /**
+ * Copy the attributes and children from <code>memento</code>
+ * to the receiver.
+ *
+ * @param memento the IMemento to be copied.
+ */
+ public void putMemento(IMemento memento);
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the value of the given key to the given string.
+ *
+ * @param key the key
+ * @param value the value
+ */
+ public void putString(String key, String value);
+}
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