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package org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler;


import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;

 
/**
 * Extension interface for <code>IReconcilingStrategy</code>.
 * The new functions are:
 * <ul>
 * <li> usage of a progress monitor
 * <li> initial reconciling step: If a reconciler runs as periodic activity in the background, this
 * 		methods offers the reconciler a chance for initializing its startegies and achieving a 
 * 		reconciled state before the periodic activity starts.
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface IReconcilingStrategyExtension {

	/**
	 * Tells this reconciling strategy with which progress monitor
	 * it will work. This method will be called before any other 
	 * method and can be called multiple times.
	 *
	 * @param monitor the progress monitor with which this strategy will work
	 */
	void setProgressMonitor(IProgressMonitor monitor);
	
	/**
	 * Called only once in the life time of this reconciling strategy.
	 */
	void initialReconcile();
}