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- /*
- * Copyright 2000-2014 Vaadin Ltd.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
- * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
- * the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
- * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
- * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
- * the License.
- */
- package com.vaadin.shared;
-
- import java.io.Serializable;
-
- /**
- * Interface implemented by all classes that are capable of communicating with
- * the server or the client side.
- * <p>
- * A connector consists of a shared state (server sets the state and
- * automatically communicates changes to the client) and the possibility to do
- * RPC calls either from the server to the client or from the client to the
- * server.
- * </p>
- * <p>
- * No classes should implement this interface directly, client side classes
- * wanting to communicate with server side should implement
- * {@link com.vaadin.client.ServerConnector} and server side classes should
- * implement {@link com.vaadin.server.ClientConnector}.
- * </p>
- *
- * @author Vaadin Ltd
- * @since 7.0.0
- */
- public interface Connector extends Serializable {
- /**
- * Returns the id for this connector. This is set by the framework and does
- * not change during the lifetime of a connector.
- *
- * @return The id for the connector.
- */
- public String getConnectorId();
-
- /**
- * Gets the parent connector of this connector, or <code>null</code> if the
- * connector is not attached to any parent.
- *
- * @return the parent connector, or <code>null</code> if there is no parent.
- */
- public Connector getParent();
-
- }
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