AbstractEditPolicy.java

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package org.eclipse.gef.editpolicies;

import org.eclipse.gef.EditPart;
import org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy;
import org.eclipse.gef.Request;
import org.eclipse.gef.RequestConstants;
import org.eclipse.gef.commands.Command;

/**
 * The default implementation of {@link EditPolicy}.
 * <P>
 * Since this is the default implementation of an interface, this document deals
 * with proper sub-classing. This class is not the API. For documentation on
 * proper usage of the public API, see the documentation for the interface
 * itself: {@link EditPolicy}.
 */
public abstract class AbstractEditPolicy implements EditPolicy,
		RequestConstants {

	private EditPart host;

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#activate()
	 */
	public void activate() {
	}

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#deactivate()
	 */
	public void deactivate() {
	}

	/**
	 * This method will log the message to GEF's trace/debug system if the
	 * corrseponding flag for FEEDBACK is set to true.
	 * 
	 * @param message
	 *            the String to log
	 * @deprecated in 3.1 This method will be removed in future releases.
	 */
	protected final void debugFeedback(String message) {
	}

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#eraseSourceFeedback(Request)
	 */
	public void eraseSourceFeedback(Request request) {
	}

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#eraseTargetFeedback(Request)
	 */
	public void eraseTargetFeedback(Request request) {
	}

	/**
	 * Returns <code>null</code> by default. <code>null</code> is used to
	 * indicate that the EditPolicy does not contribute to the specified
	 * <code>Request</code>.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#getCommand(Request)
	 */
	public Command getCommand(Request request) {
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#getHost()
	 */
	public EditPart getHost() {
		return host;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns <code>null</code> by default. <code>null</code> indicates that
	 * this policy is unable to determine the target for the specified
	 * <code>Request</code>.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#getTargetEditPart(Request)
	 */
	public EditPart getTargetEditPart(Request request) {
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#setHost(EditPart)
	 */
	public void setHost(EditPart host) {
		this.host = host;
	}

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#showSourceFeedback(Request)
	 */
	public void showSourceFeedback(Request request) {
	}

	/**
	 * Does nothing by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#showTargetFeedback(Request)
	 */
	public void showTargetFeedback(Request request) {
	}

	/**
	 * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
	 */
	public String toString() {
		String c = getClass().getName();
		c = c.substring(c.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
		if (getHost() != null) {
			return getHost().toString() + "." + c; //$NON-NLS-1$
		} else {
			return c + " (no host for EditPolicy set yet)"; //$NON-NLS-1$
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Returns <code>false</code> by default.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.gef.EditPolicy#understandsRequest(Request)
	 */
	public boolean understandsRequest(Request req) {
		return false;
	}

}