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+/*****************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 CEA LIST and others.
+ *
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *   Vincent Lorenzo (CEA LIST) vincent.lorenzo@cea.fr - Initial API and implementation
+ *
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+package org.eclipse.papyrus.emf.ui.converters;
+
+import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is used to convert a semantic value into a value displayed in a dialog (and vice versa)
+ */
+public interface IDisplayConverter {
+
+	/**
+	 *
+	 * @param canonicalValue
+	 *            the semantic value
+	 * @param editedObject
+	 *            the edited object (can be used as context to be able to calculate the display value)
+	 * @return
+	 *         the value to use to display in a dialog
+	 */
+	public Object semanticToDisplayValue(final Object canonicalValue, final EObject editedObject);
+
+
+	/**
+	 *
+	 * @param displayValue
+	 *            the value displayed in a dialog
+	 * @param editedObject
+	 *            the edited object (can be used as context to be able to calculate the display value)
+	 * @return
+	 *         the semantic value
+	 */
+	public Object displayToSemanticValue(final Object displayValue, final EObject editedObject);
+}