IHistoryPageSource (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ElementLocalHistoryPageSource, HistoryPageSource
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public interface IHistoryPageSource
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Interface to an object which is capable of supplying a history page for display by the history view or other views, dialogs or editors that wish to display the history of an object. This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. Clients can instead subclass HistoryPageSource.

Since:

3.2

See Also:

IFileHistoryProvider

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`canShowHistoryFor(Object object)`	Returns true if this history page source can show a history for the given object, false if it cannot
`Page`	`createPage(Object object)`	Called by the history view to create the page for this IFileHistoryProvider.

- Method Detail
  - canShowHistoryFor
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boolean canShowHistoryFor(Object object)
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    Returns true if this history page source can show a history for the given object, false if it cannot
    
    Parameters:
    
    object - the object that is to have history shown
    
    Returns:
    
    boolean
  - createPage
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Page createPage(Object object)
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    Called by the history view to create the page for this IFileHistoryProvider. The page must implement IHistoryPage.
    
    Parameters:
    
    object - the object whose history is to be shown
    
    Returns:
    
    a Page that implements IHistoryPage (should return either an IPage, IPageBookViewPage or an IHistoryPage
    
    See Also:
    
    IHistoryPage