/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. * * 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 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/ * * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 * * Contributors: * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ package org.eclipse.core.variables; import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; /** * Resolves the value for a dynamic variable. A dynamic variable extension * contributes a resolver which must implement this interface. *
* Clients contributing a dynamic variable are intended to provide an implementation * of this interface. *
* @since 3.0 */ public interface IDynamicVariableResolver { /** * Resolves and returns a value for the specified variable when referenced * with the given argument, possiblynull
*
* @param variable variable to resolve a value for
* @param argument argument present in expression or null
if none
* @return variable value, possibly null
* @throws CoreException if unable to resolve a value for the given variable
*/
String resolveValue(IDynamicVariable variable, String argument) throws CoreException;
}