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org.eclipse.ui.texteditor
Interface IDocumentProviderExtension4

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocumentProvider, FileDocumentProvider, ForwardingDocumentProvider, StorageDocumentProvider, TextFileDocumentProvider, TextFileDocumentProvider.NullProvider

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public interface IDocumentProviderExtension4

Extension interface for IDocumentProvider. Extends a document provider with the ability to query the content type of a given element.

This interface may be implemented by clients.

Since:

3.1

See Also:

IDocumentProvider

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Method Summary
IContentType	getContentType ( Object element)           Returns the content type of for the given element or null if none could be determined.

 

Method Detail

getContentType

IContentType getContentType(
Object element)
                            throws 
CoreException

Returns the content type of for the given element or null if none could be determined. If the element's document can be saved, the returned content type is determined by the document's current content.

Parameters:

element - the element

Returns:

the content type or null

Throws:

CoreException - if reading or accessing the underlying store fails

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