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1 | /******************************************************************************* |
2 | * Copyright (c) 2012 Ericsson | |
3 | * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 École Polytechnique de Montréal | |
4 | * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Alexandre Montplaisir <alexandre.montplaisir@gmail.com> | |
5 | * | |
6 | * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are | |
7 | * made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which | |
8 | * accompanies this distribution, and is available at | |
9 | * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html | |
10 | * | |
11 | *******************************************************************************/ | |
12 | ||
18ab1d18 | 13 | package org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.core.statesystem; |
a52fde77 | 14 | |
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15 | /** |
16 | * This is the interface used to define the "state change input", which is the | |
17 | * main type of input that goes in the state system. | |
18 | * | |
19 | * Usually a state change input, also called "state provider" is the piece of | |
20 | * the pipeline which converts trace events to state changes. | |
21 | * | |
22 | * @author alexmont | |
23 | * | |
24 | */ | |
25 | public interface IStateChangeInput extends Runnable { | |
26 | ||
27 | /** | |
28 | * Return the start time of this "state change input", which is normally the | |
29 | * start time of the originating trace (or it can be the time of the first | |
30 | * state-changing event). | |
31 | * | |
32 | * @return The start time | |
33 | */ | |
34 | public long getStartTime(); | |
35 | ||
36 | /** | |
37 | * Assign the target state system where this SCI will insert its state | |
38 | * changes. Because of dependencies issues, this can normally not be done at | |
39 | * the constructor. | |
40 | * | |
41 | * This needs to be called before .run()! | |
42 | * | |
d26f90fd | 43 | * @param ssb |
a52fde77 | 44 | */ |
d26f90fd | 45 | public void assignTargetStateSystem(IStateSystemBuilder ssb); |
a52fde77 | 46 | } |