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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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      9  *
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     15  */
     16 
     17 package com.android.ide.common.api;
     18 
     19 import java.util.List;
     20 
     21 /**
     22  * Metadata about a particular view. The metadata for a View can be found by asking the
     23  * {@link IClientRulesEngine} for the metadata for a given class via
     24  * {@link IClientRulesEngine#getMetadata}.
     25  */
     26 public interface IViewMetadata {
     27     /**
     28      * Returns the display name views of this type (a name suitable to display to the
     29      * user, normally capitalized and usually but not necessarily tied to the
     30      * implementation class). To be clear, a specific view may have an id attribute and a
     31      * text attribute, <b>neither</b> of these is the display name. Instead, the class
     32      * android.widget.ZoomControls may have the display name "Zoom Controls", and an
     33      * individual view created into a layout can for example have the id "ZoomControl01".
     34      *
     35      * @return the user visible name of views of this type (never null)
     36      */
     37     public String getDisplayName();
     38 
     39     /**
     40      * Gets the insets for this view
     41      *
     42      * @return the insets for this view
     43      */
     44     public Margins getInsets();
     45 
     46     /**
     47      * Returns the {@link FillPreference} of this view
     48      *
     49      * @return the {@link FillPreference} of this view
     50      */
     51     public FillPreference getFillPreference();
     52 
     53     /**
     54      * Returns the most common attributes for this view.
     55      *
     56      * @return a list of attribute names (not including a namespace prefix) that
     57      *         are commonly set for this type of view, never null
     58      */
     59     public List<String> getTopAttributes();
     60 
     61     /**
     62      * Types of fill behavior that views can prefer.
     63      * <p>
     64      * TODO: Consider better names. FillPolicy? Stretchiness?
     65      */
     66     public enum FillPreference {
     67         /** This view does not want to fill */
     68         NONE,
     69         /** This view wants to always fill both horizontal and vertical */
     70         BOTH,
     71         /** This view wants to fill horizontally but not vertically */
     72         WIDTH,
     73         /** This view wants to fill vertically but not horizontally */
     74         HEIGHT,
     75         /**
     76          * This view wants to fill in the opposite dimension of the context, e.g. in a
     77          * vertical context it wants to fill horizontally, and vice versa
     78          */
     79         OPPOSITE,
     80         /** This view wants to fill horizontally, but only in a vertical context */
     81         WIDTH_IN_VERTICAL,
     82         /** This view wants to fill vertically, but only in a horizontal context */
     83         HEIGHT_IN_HORIZONTAL;
     84 
     85         /**
     86          * Returns true if this view wants to fill horizontally, if the context is
     87          * vertical or horizontal as indicated by the parameter.
     88          *
     89          * @param verticalContext If true, the context is vertical, otherwise it is
     90          *            horizontal.
     91          * @return true if this view wants to fill horizontally
     92          */
     93         public boolean fillHorizontally(boolean verticalContext) {
     94             return (this == BOTH || this == WIDTH ||
     95                     (verticalContext && (this == OPPOSITE || this == WIDTH_IN_VERTICAL)));
     96         }
     97 
     98         /**
     99          * Returns true if this view wants to fill vertically, if the context is
    100          * vertical or horizontal as indicated by the parameter.
    101          *
    102          * @param verticalContext If true, the context is vertical, otherwise it is
    103          *            horizontal.
    104          * @return true if this view wants to fill vertically
    105          */
    106         public boolean fillVertically(boolean verticalContext) {
    107             return (this == BOTH || this == HEIGHT ||
    108                     (!verticalContext && (this == OPPOSITE || this == HEIGHT_IN_HORIZONTAL)));
    109         }
    110     }
    111 
    112 }
    113