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package org.gradle.gradleplugin.userinterface;

import java.io.File;

/**
 * This allows this plugin to interact with alternative UIs. Specifically, this has callbacks for IDE's so tell it to
 * edit a project file or the like. This is the 'alternate' UI interaction because it interacts with other UIs (other
 * than the built-in UI).
 *
 * @author mhunsicker
 */
public interface AlternateUIInteraction {

   /**
    Notification that you should open the specified file and go to the specified line. Its up to the
    application to determine if this file should be opened for editing or simply displayed. The difference
    comes into play for things like xml or html files where a user may want to open them in a browser vs
    a source code file where they may want to open it directly in an IDE.

    @param file the file to opened
    @param line the line to go to. -1 if no line is specified.
    */
    public void openFile( File file, int line );

    /*
      This is called when we should open the specified file for editing. This version explicitly wants them
      edited versus just opened.

      @param  file      the file to open
      @param line the line to go to. -1 if no line is specified.
      @author mhunsicker
   */
    public void editFile( File file, int line );

    /**
     * Determines if we can call editFile or openFile. This is not a dynamic answer and should always return either true of false.
     * If you want to change the answer, return true and then handle the files differently in editFiles.
     *
     * @return true if support editing files, false otherwise.
     */
    public boolean doesSupportEditingOpeningFiles();
}
