01: /*******************************************************************************
02: * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
03: * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
04: * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
05: * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
06: * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
07: *
08: * Contributors:
09: * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
10: *******************************************************************************/package org.eclipse.pde.ui.templates;
11:
12: /**
13: * The classes that implement this interface are responsible for providing value
14: * of variables when asked. Variables are defined by templates and represent the
15: * current value of the template options set by the users.
16: *
17: * @since 2.0
18: */
19: public interface IVariableProvider {
20: /**
21: * Returns the value of the variable with a given name.
22: *
23: * @param variable
24: * the name of the variable
25: * @return the value of the specified variable
26: */
27: public Object getValue(String variable);
28:
29: }
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