IEditableContent (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DocumentRangeNode, ResourceNode, StructureRootNode
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public interface IEditableContent
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Common interface for objects with editable contents. Typically it is implemented by objects that also implement the IStreamContentAccessor interface.
Clients may implement this interface.
Note that implementing IEditableContent does not automatically mean that it is editable. An object is only editable if it implements IEditableContent and the isEditable method returns true.

See Also:

IStreamContentAccessor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`isEditable()`	Returns `true` if this object can be modified.
`ITypedElement`	`replace(ITypedElement dest, ITypedElement src)`	This method is called on a parent to add or remove a child, or to copy the contents of a child.
`void`	`setContent(byte[] newContent)`	Replaces the current content with the given new bytes.

- Method Detail
  - isEditable
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boolean isEditable()
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    Returns true if this object can be modified. If it returns false the other methods of this API must not be called.
    
    Returns:
    
    true if this object can be modified
  - setContent
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void setContent(byte[] newContent)
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    Replaces the current content with the given new bytes.
    
    Parameters:
    
    newContent - this new contents replaces the old contents
  - replace
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ITypedElement replace(ITypedElement dest,
                      ITypedElement src)
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    This method is called on a parent to add or remove a child, or to copy the contents of a child. What to do is encoded in the two arguments as follows:
    
    add: dest == null src != null
    
    remove: dest != null src == null
    
    copy: dest != null src != null
    
    Parameters:
    
    dest - the existing child of this object to be replaced; if null a new child can be added.
    
    src - the new child to be added or replaced; if null an existing child can be removed.
    
    Returns:
    
    the argument dest