org.eclipse.team.ui.history
Interface IHistoryPageSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

HistoryPageSource

public interface IHistoryPageSource

Interface to an object which is capable of supplying a history page for display by the history view or other views, dialogs or editors that wish to display the history of an object. TODO: There are two ways a history page source is obtained...

This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. Clients can instead subclass HistoryPageSource.

Since:

3.2

See Also:

IFileHistoryProvider

Method Summary

boolean	canShowHistoryFor(Object object) Returns true if this history page source can show a history for the given object, false if it cannot
Page	createPage(Object object) Called by the historyview to create the page for this IFileHistoryProvider.

Method Detail

canShowHistoryFor

public boolean canShowHistoryFor(Object object)

Returns true if this history page source can show a history for the given object, false if it cannot

Parameters:

object - the object that is to have history shown

Returns:

boolean

createPage

public Page createPage(Object object)

Called by the historyview to create the page for this IFileHistoryProvider. The page must implement IHistoryPage.

Parameters:

object - the object whose history is to be shown

Returns:

a Page that implements IHistoryPage (should return either an IPage, IPageBookViewPage or an IHistoryPage

See Also:

IHistoryPage