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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. However, we do not try to match its value.
   */
  String RCSID = "";


  /**
   * 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 {@linkplan
   * 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 state);
}