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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 Darmstadt University of Technology and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     Marcel Bruch, bruch@cs.tu-darmstadt.de - [content assist] Allow to re-sort proposals - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350991
+ */
+package org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist;
+
+
+/**
+ * An <code>ICompletionProposalSorter</code> provides support for sorting proposals of a content
+ * assistant.
+ * <p>
+ * Implementors of this interface have to register this sorter with the content assist whenever
+ * needed. See {@link ContentAssistant#setSorter(ICompletionProposalSorter)} for more information on
+ * how to register a proposal sorter.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ * @since 3.8
+ */
+public interface ICompletionProposalSorter {
+
+	/**
+	 * The orderings imposed by an implementation need not be consistent with equals.
+	 * 
+	 * @param p1 the first proposal to be compared
+	 * @param p2 the second proposal to be compared
+	 * @return a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as the first argument is less than,
+	 *         equal to, or greater than the second.
+	 * 
+	 * @see java.util.Comparator#compare(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	public int compare(ICompletionProposal p1, ICompletionProposal p2);
+
+}
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