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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2008 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
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.search.processing;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;

public interface IJob {

	/* Waiting policies */
	int ForceImmediate = 1;
	int CancelIfNotReady = 2;
	int WaitUntilReady = 3;

	/* Job's result */
	boolean FAILED = false;
	boolean COMPLETE = true;

	/**
	 * Answer true if the job belongs to a given family (tag)
	 */
	public boolean belongsTo(String jobFamily);
	/**
	 * Asks this job to cancel its execution. The cancellation
	 * can take an undertermined amount of time.
	 */
	public void cancel();
	/**
	 * Ensures that this job is ready to run.
	 */
	public void ensureReadyToRun();
	/**
	 * Execute the current job, answer whether it was successful.
	 */
	public boolean execute(IProgressMonitor progress);

	/**
	 * Returns this job's family
	 */
	public String getJobFamily();
}
