From fc271d129b4ff2d141bb49112364b7019997e041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yana Stamcheva <yana@jitsi.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:52:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] all plugin components that are interested of the contact in
 use should implement this interface

---
 .../service/gui/ContactAwareComponent.java    | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/net/java/sip/communicator/service/gui/ContactAwareComponent.java

diff --git a/src/net/java/sip/communicator/service/gui/ContactAwareComponent.java b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/service/gui/ContactAwareComponent.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7cd9cf6d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/service/gui/ContactAwareComponent.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * SIP Communicator, the OpenSource Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client.
+ *
+ * Distributable under LGPL license.
+ * See terms of license at gnu.org.
+ */
+package net.java.sip.communicator.service.gui;
+
+import net.java.sip.communicator.service.contactlist.*;
+
+/**
+ * The <tt>ContactAwareComponent</tt> is an interface meant to be implemented by
+ * all plugin components that are interested of the current contact that they're
+ * dealing with.
+ * 
+ * @author Yana Stamcheva
+ */
+public interface ContactAwareComponent
+{
+    /**
+     * Sets the current meta contact. Meant to be used by plugin components that
+     * are interested of the current contact. The current contact could be the
+     * contact currently selected in the contact list or the contact for the
+     * currently selected chat, etc. It depends on the container, where this
+     * component is meant to be added.
+     * 
+     * @param metaContact the current meta contact
+     */
+    public void setCurrentContact(MetaContact metaContact);
+    
+    /**
+     * Sets the current meta group. Meant to be used by plugin components that
+     * are interested of the current meta group. The current group is always
+     * the currently selected group in the contact list. If the group passed
+     * here is null, this means that no group is selected.
+     * 
+     * @param metaGroup the current meta contact group
+     */
+    public void setCurrentContactGroup(MetaContactGroup metaGroup);
+}