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+/* StateEditable.java -- Interface for collaborating with StateEdit.
+ Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301 USA.
+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
+making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
+conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
+combination.
+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
+permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
+executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
+modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
+terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
+module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
+or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
+exception statement from your version. */
+
+package javax.swing.undo;
+
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+
+
+/**
+ * The interface for objects whose state can be undone or redone by a
+ * {@link StateEdit} action.
+ *
+ * <p>The following example shows how to write a class that implements
+ * this interface.
+ *
+ * <pre> class Foo
+ * implements StateEditable
+ * {
+ * private String name;
+ *
+ * public void setName(String n) { name = n; }
+ *
+ * public void restoreState(Hashtable h)
+ * {
+ * if (h.containsKey("name"))
+ * setName((String) h.get("name"));
+ * }
+ *
+ * public void storeState(Hashtable s)
+ * {
+ * s.put("name", name);
+ * }
+ * }</pre>
+ *
+ * @see StateEdit
+ *
+ * @author Andrew Selkirk (aselkirk@sympatico.ca)
+ * @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
+ */
+public interface StateEditable
+{
+ /**
+ * The ID of the Java source file in Sun&#x2019;s Revision Control
+ * System (RCS). This certainly should not be part of the API
+ * specification. But in order to be API-compatible with
+ * Sun&#x2019;s reference implementation, GNU Classpath also has to
+ * provide this field and match its value. The value used here has
+ * been in every JDK release at least from 1.2 to 1.5.
+ */
+ String RCSID = "$" +
+ "Id: StateEditable.java,v 1.2 1997/09/08 19:39:08 marklin Exp $";
+
+
+ /**
+ * Performs an edit action, taking any editable state information
+ * from the specified hash table.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Note to implementors of this interface:</b> To increase
+ * efficiency, the <code>StateEdit</code> class {@link
+ * StateEdit#removeRedundantState()} removes redundant state
+ * information. Therefore, implementations of this interface must be
+ * prepared for the case where certain keys were stored into the
+ * table by {@link #storeState}, but are not present anymore
+ * when the <code>restoreState</code> method gets called.
+ *
+ * @param state a hash table containing the relevant state
+ * information.
+ */
+ void restoreState(Hashtable<?, ?> state);
+
+
+ /**
+ * Stores any editable state information into the specified hash
+ * table.
+ *
+ * @param state a hash table for storing relevant state
+ * information.
+ */
+ void storeState(Hashtable<Object, Object> state);
+}