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This plug-in contains the bulk of the Workbench implementation, and depends on JFace, SWT, and Core Runtime. It cannot be used independently from org.eclipse.ui. Workbench client plug-ins should not depend directly on this plug-in.
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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui;

import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelectionProvider;

/**
 * The primary interface between an editor part and the workbench.
 * 
 * The workbench exposes its implemention of editor part sites via this 
 * interface, which is not intended to be implemented or extended by clients.
 * 
 */
public interface IEditorSite extends IWorkbenchPartSite {

    /**
     * Returns the action bar contributor for this editor.
     * 
     * An action contributor is responsable for the creation of actions.
     * By design, this contributor is used for one or more editors of the same type.
     * Thus, the contributor returned by this method is not owned completely
     * by the editor - it is shared.
     * 
     *
     * @return the editor action bar contributor, or null if none exists
     */
    public IEditorActionBarContributor getActionBarContributor();

    /**
	 * Returns the action bars for this part site. Editors of the same type (and
	 * in the same window) share the same action bars. Contributions to the
	 * action bars are done by the IEditorActionBarContributor.
	 * 
	 * @return the action bars
	 * @since 2.1
	 */
    public IActionBars getActionBars();

    /**
     * 
     * Registers a pop-up menu with the default id for extension. The default id
     * is defined as the part id.
     * 
     * 
     * By default, context menus include object contributions based on the
     * editor input for the current editor. It is possible to override this
     * behaviour by calling this method with includeEditorInput
     * as false. This might be desirable for editors that
     * present a localized view of an editor input (e.g., a node in a model
     * editor).
     * 
     * 
     * For a detailed description of context menu registration see
     * {@link IWorkbenchPartSite#registerContextMenu(MenuManager, ISelectionProvider)}
     * 
     * 
     * @param menuManager
     *            the menu manager; must not be null.
     * @param selectionProvider
     *            the selection provider; must not be null.
     * @param includeEditorInput
     *            Whether the editor input should be included when adding object
     *            contributions to this context menu.
     * @see IWorkbenchPartSite#registerContextMenu(MenuManager,
     *      ISelectionProvider)
     * @since 3.1
     */
    public void registerContextMenu(MenuManager menuManager,
            ISelectionProvider selectionProvider, boolean includeEditorInput);

    /**
     * 
     * Registers a pop-up menu with a particular id for extension. This method
     * should only be called if the target part has more than one context menu
     * to register.
     * 
     * 
     * By default, context menus include object contributions based on the
     * editor input for the current editor. It is possible to override this
     * behaviour by calling this method with includeEditorInput
     * as false. This might be desirable for editors that
     * present a localized view of an editor input (e.g., a node in a model
     * editor).
     * 
     * 
     * For a detailed description of context menu registration see
     * {@link IWorkbenchPartSite#registerContextMenu(MenuManager, ISelectionProvider)}
     * 
     * 
     * @param menuId
     *            the menu id; must not be null.
     * @param menuManager
     *            the menu manager; must not be null.
     * @param selectionProvider
     *            the selection provider; must not be null.
     * @param includeEditorInput
     *            Whether the editor input should be included when adding object
     *            contributions to this context menu.
     * @see IWorkbenchPartSite#registerContextMenu(MenuManager,
     *      ISelectionProvider)
     * @since 3.1
     */
    public void registerContextMenu(String menuId, MenuManager menuManager,
            ISelectionProvider selectionProvider, boolean includeEditorInput);
}