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SciJava Common is a shared library for SciJava software. It provides a plugin framework, with an extensible mechanism for service discovery, backed by its own annotation processor, so that plugins can be loaded dynamically. It is used by downstream projects in the SciJava ecosystem, such as ImageJ and SCIFIO.

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package org.scijava.widget;

import org.scijava.module.ModuleItem;
import org.scijava.plugin.Plugin;
import org.scijava.plugin.WrapperPlugin;

/**
 * Interface for input widgets. An input widget is intended to harvest user
 * input for a particular {@link ModuleItem}. They are used by the
 * {@link InputHarvester} preprocessor to collect module input values.
 * 
 * Widgets discoverable at runtime must implement this interface and be
 * annotated with @{@link Plugin} with attribute {@link Plugin#type()} =
 * {@link InputWidget}.class. While it possible to create a widget merely by
 * implementing this interface, it is encouraged to instead extend
 * {@link AbstractInputWidget}, for convenience.
 * 
 * 
 * @author Curtis Rueden
 * @param  The input type of the widget.
 * @param  The type of UI component housing the widget.
 * @see Plugin
 * @see WidgetService
 * @see InputHarvester
 * @see InputPanel
 */
public interface InputWidget extends WrapperPlugin,
	UIComponent
{

	/** Updates the model to reflect the latest widget state. */
	void updateModel();

	/** Gets the current widget value. */
	T getValue();

	/** Refreshes the widget to reflect the latest model value(s). */
	void refreshWidget();

	/**
	 * Returns true iff the widget should be labeled with the parameter label.
	 * Most widgets are labeled this way, though some may not be; e.g.,
	 * {@link MessageWidget}s.
	 * 
	 * @see WidgetModel#getWidgetLabel()
	 */
	boolean isLabeled();

	/**
	 * Returns true iff the widget should be considered a read-only "message"
	 * rather than a bidirectional input widget. The
	 * {@link InputPanel#isMessageOnly()} method will return true iff this method
	 * returns true for all of its widgets.
	 */
	boolean isMessage();

	// NB: Javadoc overrides.

	// -- WrapperPlugin methods --

	/**
	 * Initializes the widget to use the given widget model. Once initialized, the
	 * widget's UI pane will be accessible via {@link #getComponent()}.
	 */
	@Override
	void set(WidgetModel model);

	/** Gets the model object backing this widget. */
	@Override
	WidgetModel get();

	// -- Typed methods --

	/** Gets whether this widget would be appropriate for the given model. */
	@Override
	boolean supports(WidgetModel model);

}