/*
* iReport - Visual Designer for JasperReports.
* Copyright (C) 2002 - 2009 Jaspersoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
* http://www.jaspersoft.com
*
* Unless you have purchased a commercial license agreement from Jaspersoft,
* the following license terms apply:
*
* This program is part of iReport.
*
* iReport is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* iReport 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with iReport. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer;
/**
* A IReportConnectionEditor class provides a complete custom GUI for customizing a target IReportConnection.<br>
* Each IReportConnectionEditor should inherit from the java.awt.Component class so it can be instantiated inside an AWT dialog or panel.<br>
* Each IReportConnectionEditor should have a null constructor.<br>
*
* @author gtoffoli
*/
public interface IReportConnectionEditor {
/**
* Set the IReportConnection to edit. Actually it is a copy of the original IReportConnection.
* It can be modifed by the user interface.<br><br>
*
* The copy of an IReportConnection is done instancing a new class of the same type and loading
* the properties stored by the first object
* @param c IReportConnection to edit
*/
public void setIReportConnection(IReportConnection c);
/**
* This method is called when the user completes to edit the datasource or when a datasource test is required.
* @return IReportConnection modified. IT can be the same instance get in input with setIReportConnection or a new one.
*/
public IReportConnection getIReportConnection();
}
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