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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2010 Soyatec (http://www.soyatec.com) 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:
+ *     Soyatec - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt;
+
+import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.IObservable;
+import org.eclipse.core.databinding.property.value.IValueProperty;
+
+/**
+ * A Data Binding provider defines the nature of Data Binding such as Bean Object Binding, EMF Object Binding, XML data Binding or Data Base binding
+ * 
+ * @author yyang
+ */
+public interface IDataProvider {
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the data of the provider, this value can be not used for databindings.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	Object getData(String path);
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the data of the provider, this value can be not used for databindings.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	Object getData(Object target, String path);
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the data of the provider, this value can be not used for databindings.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	void setData(String path, Object value);
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the data of the provider, this value can be not used for databindings.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	void setData(Object target, String path, Object value);
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the data type of the provider.lue
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	Object getDataType(String path);
+
+	/**
+	 * check if the property is read only.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	boolean isPropertyReadOnly(String path);
+
+	Object getProperty(String property);
+
+	void setProperty(String property, Object object);
+
+	boolean hasProperty(String property);
+
+	void removeProperty(String property);
+
+	IObservable observe(Object data, String path, Object targetType, int observeKind);
+
+	IValueProperty createValueProperty(Object type, String fullPath);
+
+	interface DataModelService {
+
+		/**
+		 * get the type of this object
+		 * 
+		 * @param object
+		 * @return
+		 */
+		Object toModelType(Object object);
+
+		Object loadModelType(String typeName);
+
+		Object toModelPropertyType(Object object, String propertyName);
+	}
+
+	DataModelService getModelService();
+
+}